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FERTILITY AND STERILITY
Volume 81, Issue 2, Pages 262-268Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2003.09.027
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anxiety; depression; dropout; IVF-ICSI; marital; sexual
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Objective: To gain more insight into Psychological aspects of dropping out from IVF-ICSI. Design: Prospective cohort study. Setting: University hospital-based tertiary care fertility clinic. Patient(s): Women entering their first treatment cycle of IVF or ICSI. Intervention(s): Standardized psychological questionnaires were administered before the start of the treatment and after treatment. Main Outcome Measure(s): Reasons for dropout, state and trait anxiety, depression, and marital and sexual satisfaction. Result(s): Baseline psychological factors and the probability of dropout after IVF-ICSI treatment were found to be associated in the group that stopped treatment for psychological reasons. Those who were denied further treatment by the medical team, the actively censored group, did not show pretreatment differences regarding psychological measures in comparison with those who continued treatment. After treatment, the group that was denied further treatment showed higher levels of anxiety and depression compared with those that continued. Conclusion(s): Dropout, being a well-known phenomenon in IVF-ICSI, is related to preexisting psychological factors in IVF-ICSI. Actively censored patients were psychologically well-adjusted before treatment, but this changed after censoring. (C) 2004 by American Society for Reproductive Medicine.
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