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- Title
The prevalence of Depression among Infertile Women in Iraq.
- Authors
Ali, Mousa Mohsin
- Abstract
Background: Worldwide about 15% in the childbearing years have infertility problems. Many studies demonstrated that men and women have abnormal emotional responses, such as stress, anxiety and depression. In our community less published researches examined both men's and women's reactions to subfertility. Some treatment options like Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) such as Invitro fertilization (IVF) ad more stress, anxiety, and grief to the patients whom already have these symptoms from delay of pregnancy. Aim: this study was carried out to assess the prevalence of depression for infertile females in Kerbala, Najaf and Babylon. Methods: Face-to-face interviews were conducted with 498 infertile women all suffering from primary or secondary infertility only 433 of them complete their participation in our study and answered the questionnaire. We made specific form of questionnaire consists of demographic and obstetrical information's mixing with some questions from validating questionnaire used in Patient Health Questionnaires-nine (PHQ-9). The data were analyzed by application of specific model of descriptive analysis includes; frequency, percentage, mean and inferential data (standard deviation, Chi-square, t-test and Pearson correlation coefficient). Results: The prevalence of depression was very high among infertile women in Kerbala, Najaf and Babylon/Iraq, which is 93.5% were depressed from study sample. The mean score of depression among infertile patients was 12.26 ± 6.57 out of 36. Conclusion the study concludes that the infertility has large impacts on woman in our community with different forms of psychological symptoms as especially depression that may affects their activity and social performance.
- Subjects
IRAQ; NAJAF (Iraq); BABYLON (Extinct city); MENTAL depression; CHILDBEARING age; PEARSON correlation (Statistics); DEPRESSION in women; REPRODUCTIVE technology; COMPLICATED grief
- Publication
Kerbala Jorunal of Medicine, 2021, Vol 14, Issue 2, p2528
- ISSN
1990-5483
- Publication type
Article