Psychosocial aspects of therapeutic donor insemination

The experience of delays in conception or possibility of remaining childless has the potential to create considerable psychological discomfort. In couples with severe male factor infertility, therapeutic intrauterine insemination using donor sperms (TDI) is offered as a treatment, second to in vitro...

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Published in:Journal of human reproductive sciences 2018-10, Vol.11 (4), p.315-319
Main Authors: Patel, Ansha, Sharma, P, Kumar, Pratap
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Artificial insemination
Childlessness
Children
Children & youth
Cognition & reasoning
counseling
couple
donor insemination
donors
emotional distress
Families & family life
Females
In vitro fertilization
Infertility
Parents & parenting
Psychological aspects
psychotherapy
recipients
Reproductive technologies
Researchers
Review
Risk factors
Sperm
Stigma
Women
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Summary:The experience of delays in conception or possibility of remaining childless has the potential to create considerable psychological discomfort. In couples with severe male factor infertility, therapeutic intrauterine insemination using donor sperms (TDI) is offered as a treatment, second to in vitro fertilization using donor sperms. TDI is lucrative, less invasive, and a hopeful treatment. However, there are intricacies associated with it. Its immediate outcomes involve limited success rates, nonresponse, and chances of implantation failures, miscarriages, and multifetal pregnancies. Due to this, couples experience distress when they are advised to undergo three to six cycles of TDI in order to meet the expectations of having a baby. TDI has long-term issues on the triad comprising the "recipients," the "donors," and the "the children born out of TDI." Nevertheless, managing psychosocial needs for couples undergoing TDI and other treatments in Indian clinics are grey areas of the conventional treatment pathway. The present review expands on the psychological issues and needs in couples opting for TDI.
ISSN:0974-1208
1998-4766
DOI:10.4103/jhrs.JHRS_108_18