1 / 1

RESULTS General characteristics of the participants

mason
Download Presentation

RESULTS General characteristics of the participants

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. The Impact of Infertility on Psychological and Social Status of Women in Iran: a Content Analysis Study*Zahra Behboodi Moghaddam1,Mahvash Salsali1,Hasan Eftekhar-Ardabily2,Mojtaba Veismoradi1 and Fatemeh Ramezanzadeh3 *Corresponding author.1.Faculty of nursing and Midwifery ,Tehran University of Medical Sciences.2.School of Public Health , Tehran University Of Medical Sciences, Tehran , Iran.3.Vali-asr Reproductive health Research center Aim: The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of infertility in Iranian infertile women. METHOD:A qualitative design, based on the content analysis approach, was employed for data collection and analysis of the experiences of Iranian women on infertility. Qualitative studies are intended to enhance understanding and describe the world of human experience .Semi-structured interviews were carried out with 10 women who were seeking infertility treatment at an infertility treatment center for primary infertility (in each case a female factor had been recognized) in Tehran, Iran. All women were interviewed in a private room without the presence of their male partners, whom they all reported to be their husbands. Each interview took 45 to 90 minutes on average. The foci of the interviews’ questions were: 1- Would you please describe your experiences on infertility? 2- What are the impacts of infertility on your life?The interviews were conducted in Persian language by the first author and then translated into English. The second author as a bilingual translator supervised the translation and confirmed it. Each interview was recorded and transcribed verbatim and then analyzed concurrently RESULTS General characteristics of the participants The participant’s age range was between 25 and 45 years (mean= 34 years, SD = 5.90). The duration of infertility range was between 4 and 16 years (mean = 9 years, SD = 6.62). Two participants had an academic degree, two had secondary education, and six had incomplete secondary education. Regarding the participants’ husbands, their age range was between 30 and 55 years (mean=41 years, SD = 6.50). The educational status of the participant's husbands was similar to the educational status of the participants. Themes The analysis of the transcripts resulted in emerging four main themes including “abuse”, “marital instability”, “social isolation”, and “losing of self- esteem”. • CONCLUSION • Infertility seriously influences both the psychological and social wellbeing of women. Improving the awareness of health care providers about the complications of infertility and the context in which they occur are necessary in order to provide infertile women with high quality care.

More Related