Journal
FERTILITY AND STERILITY
Volume 96, Issue 2, Pages 409-U479Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2011.02.046
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Infertility; quality of life; psychology; treatment; assessment; burden; assisted reproductive technologies; in vitro fertilization
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- European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology
- American Society for Reproductive Medicine
- Merck-Serono, Geneva, Switzerland (an affiliate of Merck, Darmstadt, Germany)
- Merck-Serono
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Objective: To develop the first international instrument to measure fertility quality of life, FertiQoL, in men and women experiencing fertility problems, to evaluate the preliminary psychometric properties of this new tool and to translate FertiQoL into multiple languages. Design: Survey. Setting: Online and fertility clinics in USA, Australia/New Zealand, Canada, and United Kingdom. Participants: A total of 1,414 people with fertility problems. Intervention(s): None. Main Outcome Measure(s): FertiQoL. Result(s): FertiQoL consists of 36 items that assess core (24 items) and treatment-related (10 items) quality of life as well as overall life and physical health (2 items). Cronbach reliability statistics for the Core and Treatment FertiQoL (and subscales) were satisfactory, in the range of 0.72 and 0.92. Sensitivity analyses showed that FertiQoL detected expected relations between quality of life and gender, parity, and support seeking. FertiQoL was translated into 20 languages by the same translation team, with each translation verified by local bilingual fertility experts. Conclusion(s): FertiQoL is a reliable measure of the impact of fertility problems and its treatment on quality of life. Future research should establish its use in cross-cultural research and clinical work. (Fertil Steril (R) 2011;96:409-15. (C) 2011 by American Society for Reproductive Medicine.)
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