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- - The study aimed to evaluate the quality of life (QoL) of infertile Chinese women and identify factors negatively impacting their wellness to enhance care and compliance with treatment.
- - Researchers conducted a study using the WHOQOL-100 instrument to compare QoL between infertile women and matched fertile controls, focusing on demographics and various stress factors.
- - Findings revealed that infertile women had lower scores in areas such as spirituality, self-esteem, and access to health care, while experiencing greater pain, but showed some positive adjustments in aspects like mobility and daily activities compared to fertile women.
Article Abstract
Objective: To assess QoL of infertile Chinese women and determine the specific factors adversely affecting QoL for improving the care and treatment compliance of infertile women.
Materials And Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study on a randomized, demographically matched, controlled population of infertile married Chinese women to determine their demographic, menstrual, family stress, and infertility characteristics and then applied the World Health Organization QoL Instrument (WHOQOL-100) to determine which factors would be associated with significant QoL differences between infertile women and their demographically matched fertile controls.
Results: Infertile women showed lower QoL scores in the facets of spirituality/religion/personal beliefs, self-esteem, financial resources, and accessibility to and quality of health and social care, as well as increased pain and discomfort, while also experiencing positive QoL adjustments in terms of mobility, daily living activities, work capacity, sexual activity, freedom, physical safety, security, and transport.
Conclusion: Married infertile Chinese women had significantly lower overall and comprehensive QoL scores, as well as higher anxiety scores, compared with fertile controls.
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| http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tjog.2015.06.014 | DOI Listing |
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