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- Title
Quality of life in men with involuntary childlessness: long-term follow-up.
- Authors
Schanz, S.; Häfner, H.‐M.; Ulmer, A.; Fierlbeck, G.
- Abstract
We conducted a longitudinal cohort study on the quality of life of infertile male patients measured at baseline and after 5 years with a specific quality of life instrument for male patients who are involuntarily childless. It was distributed to patients who were seen at the andrology and gynaecology clinics for infertility diagnoses and treatment. At baseline (T1), 275 patients took part in the study. A subset of these patients (N = 133) had released two semen samples, and the results of the semen analysis had been communicated to them before they received the questionnaire. Semen quality of this subset was assessed according to WHO recommendations. After 5 years (T2), the questionnaires were mailed again and were sent back by N = 101 patients. No significant quality of life difference was found between the semen quality groups. After 5 years, an improvement was found for the dimensions 'desire for a child' [mean score 1.92 (T1) versus 1.72 (T2)] and 'gender identity' [mean score 1.56 (T1) versus 1.42 (T2)] while no change was found for 'partnership' and 'psychological well-being'. We did not find significant differences between patients who had fathered a child in the meantime and patients who did not become fathers.
- Subjects
QUALITY of life; HUMAN ecology; COHORT analysis; BACK care; BODY fluids
- Publication
Andrologia, 2014, Vol 46, Issue 7, p731
- ISSN
0303-4569
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/and.12140