Table 5 from Infertility‐related communication and coping strategies among women affected by primary or secondary infertility | Semantic Scholar (2024)

Anxiety and depression are common and are influenced by coping strategies used by female with infertility, and Structured psychological support is essential to improve their emotional well-being and coping with infertility.

Participating in infertility forums offers persons information about fertility treatments and social support in the process of coping with infertility, and an adverse aspect that was described concerned advice that were not evidence-based.

The CSI-W can contribute to assessing the coping strategies of infertile women as its validity and reliability have been verified through various methods, including convergent, discriminant, and concurrent validity testing.

It was showed that social interactions following failed assisted reproductive cycles can be upsetting for infertile couples and healthcare providers and psychologists may provide a space for safe social interactions in order to help couples to use appropriate strategies in these circumstances.

It was seen that Turkish women did not have sufficient knowledge about the process of infertility and treatment and had a high level of hopelessness.

A careful evaluation of the mental health of women undergoing gynecological surgery at risk of infertility should be included in the care for benign gynecologic conditions, in order to prevent psychosocial distress and alleviate the burden on QoL.

Interventions for couples starting ART treatment should focus on promoting infertility-related communication and support within the couple, which might help to reduce the use of infertility-specific maladaptive coping strategies.

Infertile women suffer a number of psychological problems that are amenable to treatment through simple educational nursing interventions and such educational endeavors should be implemented on a wide scale in all similar settings.

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The present study showed that the majority of infertile women used passive- avoidance coping strategy, and those who perceived their infertility problem as meaningful had a low infertility stress, while those who used active-avoidance coping strategies had high infertility stress.

Self-compassion mediated the relation between the need for parenthood and subjective well-being for women with primary or secondary infertility, and may serve as an emotional regulation strategy and a form of resiliency against feelings of self-blame or blame by society for infertility.

The findings represent a small sample, but they point towards the need for developing models of counselling and support that stimulate self-reflection and strengthen personal resources and empowerment for individuals and couples experiencing involuntary childlessness.

The study provides information about where to intervene with fertility patients in order to reduce their stress after medically unsuccessful treatment, and predicts low fertility problem stress in the personal and marital domain.

Findings imply that resilience can curb the initial distress; in contrast, marital quality may enable individuals to reflect upon their trauma, initially amplifying distress but eventually facilitating recovery.

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