Our daily helplessness: its presence and experience in the outpatient operation room of the Assisted Reproduction Clinic.

Objective: To identify the feeling of helplessness in assisted reproduction patients, along with the experience in the out patient surgical center of an assisted reproduction clinic.

Methods: A prospective study of care and psychological interventions performed in the outpatient surgical center (OSC) of the assisted reproduction clinic from January 2019 to December 2022. Patients are first seen by the nursing staff.

Psychological Intervention in the Oocyte Pick-up Room and Recovery Room in Assisted Reproduction: new listening accounts.

Objective: This study seeks to identify the role and possible participation of a psychologist/psychoanalyst inside an Oocyte Pick-up Room and Recovery Room (OPR-RR) in an Assisted Reproduction clinic and its implications on patients and team.

Methods: Prospective study of psychological support during the procedures from September 2014 to December 2018. Most visits took place during oocyte retrievals, for either IVF/ICSI or gamete freezing.