"In cycles of dreams, despair, and desperation:" Research perspectives on infertility specific distress in patients undergoing fertility treatments

"Emotional distress in infertility" is a broad expression that loosely denotes anxiety, depression, grief, crisis, depleting psychological well-being, and all forms of affective and interpersonal disturbances faced by individuals with infertility. The distress is usually associated with in...

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Published in:Journal of human reproductive sciences 2018-10, Vol.11 (4), p.320-328
Main Authors: Patel, Ansha, Sharma, P, Kumar, Pratap
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anxiety
Care and treatment
Childbirth & labor
Coping
Couples
Crisis
Dreams
emotional distress
Females
fertility treatment
Gender differences
Grief
Infertility
Medical research
Menstruation
Mental depression
Patients
Psychological aspects
Psychopathology
research perspectives
Review
Risk factors
Stress (Psychology)
Well being
Womens health
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Summary:"Emotional distress in infertility" is a broad expression that loosely denotes anxiety, depression, grief, crisis, depleting psychological well-being, and all forms of affective and interpersonal disturbances faced by individuals with infertility. The distress is usually associated with involuntary childlessness as it is an unwelcoming event. The developmental crisis associated with childlessness poses a threat to one's sense of self at all levels (individual, family and social). Distress may begin before or during treatments as a person experiences the loss of control over attaining parenthood, anxiety or dejection after the diagnosis, treatments, its complications particularly its limited success rates. This paper reviews the basic concepts, theoretical models related to infertility specific distress (ISD). It elaborates on the effects of individual and treatment-specific variables on ISD with special highlights gathered from the national and international research.
ISSN:0974-1208
1998-4766
DOI:10.4103/jhrs.JHRS_42_18