Assessment of Psychological status of Infertile Women in Erbil Kurdistan Region | ||
kufa Journal for Nursing sciences | ||
Article 1, Volume 3, Issue 1, April 2013, Pages 149-161 | ||
Authors | ||
Saja H. Mohammed; Abdulqader H. Hamad Gardi | ||
Abstract | ||
Objective: This study was conducted to assess the psychological status on infertile women. Methods: A descriptive study was conducted on 200 infertile women who attending to infertility center in Erbil City since the period of 2nd February 2005 to 6th April 2005. Results: These results showed that (68%) infertile women were having higher level of anxiety. Anxiety is the psychological problems which have been most commonly investigated, most of the infertile (49%) women had a depression. Conclusion: There were high percentage of infertile women had psychological disturbances (abnormal level of anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem). Recommendation: the study recommended that Establish highly specialized infertility center to provide infertility treatment and psychological counseling to all infertile women | ||
Keywords | ||
infertility; Women; anxiety; Depression | ||
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