Comparison of the amount of stress and marital satisfaction in infertile women with positive and negative microinjection results

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Payame Noor university, Tehran

2 Master of Science in Psychology

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Comparison of the amount of stress and marital satisfaction in infertile women with positive and negative microinjection results
Abstract
The phenomenon of infertility as one of the common problems in women is the cause of stress and marital dissatisfaction. The purpose of this study was to compare the level of stress and marital satisfaction in infertile women with positive and negative microinjection results. The research method was causal-comparative (post-event). The statistical population of this study is all women with a history of infertility treated with the microinjection method referred to clinics and infertility centers of Mehr in Rasht City in March 2019 A sample of 80 subjects (40 infertile women with positive microinjection and 40 infertile women with negative microinjection results) according to the criteria for entering and leaving the study and using available sampling method were chosen and Anxiety, Depression and Stress Questionnaire (DASS-21) and Inrich's Marital Satisfaction (1989) questionnaires completed. The data were analyzed using an independent t-test and multivariate analysis of variance. The findings of this study showed that between the mean of stress and total score of marital satisfaction and marital satisfaction subscales, marital relationship, conflict resolution, leisure activities, role of egalitarianism, family and friends in two infertile women There is a significant difference between the positive and negative microinjection results (P<0.01).Accordingly, it can be concluded that women with a positive microinjection result are more likely to have negative stress and less marital satisfaction than women with negative microinjection.
Key Words: Stress, marital satisfaction, infertility, microinjection.

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