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- Title
Women's psychological profile and psychiatric diagnoses and the outcome of in vitro fertilization: is there an association?
- Authors
Zaig, Inbar; Azem, Foad; Schreiber, Shaul; Gottlieb-Litvin, Yael; Meiboom, Hadas; Bloch, Miki
- Abstract
The influence of psychological processes and psychiatric syndromes on the outcome of fertility treatments is not well understood. In this prospective study, we investigated the effect of baseline psychiatric diagnosis and situational psychiatric symptoms on several biological outcome factors of in vitro fertilization treatments (IVF). Women undergoing their first IVF treatment ( n = 108) were interviewed before treatment for the presence of a lifetime DSM-IV-TR disorder. Questionnaires measuring state depression (Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression scale), anxiety (State Trait Anxiety Inventory), and psychiatric symptomatology (Brief Symptom Inventory) were administered at ovulation induction. Outcome variables were number of retrieved and fertilized oocytes, chemical pregnancy, and a take home baby. Situational anxiety, depression, or other psychiatric symptoms had no effect on any of the outcome measures. Women diagnosed with mood or anxiety disorder prior to the onset of the IVF treatment showed a higher, though not statistically significant, pregnancy success rate compared to women without a diagnosis (57 % compared to 38 %). We speculate that in women with such psychopathology, chronic stress results in biological effects that impede successful implantation, thus impairing fertility. Fertility treatment using the IVF paradigm may bypass this negative effect, resulting in high success rates. This hypothesis should be further explored.
- Subjects
PSYCHIATRIC diagnosis; CHI-squared test; FERTILIZATION in vitro; INTERVIEWING; LONGITUDINAL method; PROBABILITY theory; PSYCHOLOGICAL tests; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCALES (Weighing instruments); STATISTICS; T-test (Statistics); PSYCHOLOGY of women; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Archives of Women's Mental Health, 2012, Vol 15, Issue 5, p353
- ISSN
1434-1816
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00737-012-0293-z