Journal of Education and Health Promotion

Evaluation the relationship between social health and stress of assisted reproductive techniques in infertile women

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

. Sahar Panahi
. Parvin Bahadoran
. Masoume Pirhadi

Nursing and Midwifery Care Research Center, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran

Abstract
BACKGROUND: Fertility is highly valued in most cultures. In contrast, infertility as a crisis has the 
potential to threaten the stability of individuals, relationships, and communities. Many infertile people 
are at risk in the early stages of infertility treatment for health and mental health problems and severe 
stress. The present study was conducted to assess the relationship between the social health of 
infertile women and the stress of infertility treatment.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study was performed descriptively longitudinal correlation 
on 2020 women in infertility canters in Isfahan. Data collection tool in this study was three parts 
questionnaire. The first contained demographic information, the second was stress, and the third 
was the social health dimension questionnaire. Analyze the data was performed using the descriptive 
statistical methods for the quantitative variables Pearson correlation coefficient. P < 0.05 was 
considered significant.
RESULTS: The results showed that the mean standard deviation (SD) of social health was 
155.1 (16.46), and the mean (SD) score of treatment stress was 22.91 (7.93). Pearson correlation 
coefficient showed that treatment stress score was not significantly related to overall social health 
score and its dimensions (P > 0.05).
CONCLUSIONS: In this study, no statistically significant relationship was identified between these 
two variables. Probably, due to the living conditions of the people of our country in these years and 
the existence of stress and their great concern about economic issues, etc. The results were not 
observed contrary to the researcher’s expectations.

Keywords

Infertility
social health
stress
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Journal of Education and Health Promotion
Volume 12, Issue 3
March 2022
Pages 1-5

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