Medical waiting periods: imminence, emotions & coping-special RepORT future science group Women's Health (2010) 6(1) Medical waiting periods: imminence, emotions & coping-special RepORT increased coping effort, but clear differentiation among strategies was not present. Interventions that sustain coping efforts would be a worthwhile endeavor that might bolster psychological wellbeing when dealing with this or other m edical waiting periods [30,31].

PRCI was feasible in the IVF context and was perceived as an acceptable intervention to help minimize the strain of waiting for pregnancy test results during fertility treatment. Future research needs to evaluate the full benefits of PRCI against routine care during the waiting period.

The aim of this study was to examine the unique and shared predictive power of psychological variables on reproductive physical health. Three months before fertility treatment, 97 women completed measures of dispositional optimism, trait anxiety, and coping. Information about biological response to treatment (e.g., estradiol level) was collected from medical charts after treatment. Structural equation modeling showed that measured psychological variables were all significant indicators of a single latent construct and that this construct was a better predictor of biological response to treatment than was any individual predictor. This research contributes to evidence suggesting that the health benefits of dispositional optimism are due to its shared variance with neuroticism.

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