Objective To evaluate the evidence on the efficacy of psychosocial interventions for
improving pregnancy rates and reducing distress for couples in treatment with assisted …

About 10 years ago Greil published a review and critique of the literature on the socio‐
psychological impact of infertility. He found at the time that most scholars treated infertility as …

This review provides an overview of how women adjust emotionally to the various phases of
IVF treatment in terms of anxiety, depression or general distress before, during and after …

BACKGROUND A model suggesting that high perception of stigma is associated with
reduced disclosure to others, leading to lower social support and higher distress in new …

BACKGROUND: Around 4% of all couples remain involuntarily childless. These people
often experience insufficient social support, which further aggravates the distress symptoms …

BACKGROUND Social support can be a critical component of how a woman adjusts to
infertility, yet few studies have investigated its impact on infertility-related coping and stress …

OBJECTIVE: To investigate (i) marital benefit, eg, that infertility has strengthen the marriage
and brought the partners closer together among people beginning fertility treatment and (ii) …

Introduction The stigma of not giving birth to children affects approximately 53. 08~ 64% of
female infertility patients worldwide. This stigma not only causes harm to the mental health of …

BACKGROUND There is preliminary evidence to suggest an impact of stress on chances of
achieving a pregnancy with in-vitro fertilization (IVF). The majority of the available research …

Background It has been widely recognized that infertility and its treatment affects a couple as
a dyad. Given biomedical differences and differences in socialization processes and gender …