Appraisal, Coping, and Emotional Health of Infertile Couples Undergoing Donor Artificial Insemination

Prattke, Teresa Wedeward; Gass-Sternas, Kathleen A.

doi:10.1111/j.1552-6909.1993.tb01837.x

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“…This was sim i lar to the results in the research by Prattke & Gass-Sternas (1993) and Mor row et al (1995). They indi cated that infer tile wives receiv ing assisted repro duc tive tech nol o gies adopted the above three ways of cop ing to deal with infer til ity more than hus bands did.…”

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“…The research by Prattke and Gass-Sternas (1993) indicated the cor re la tion between emo tional reac tions and coping behav iors of infer tile cou ples receiv ing assisted reproduc tive tech nol o gies. It showed that, when patients' percep tions were emo tion ally dis turbed, they would adopt more con front ing, dis tanc ing, self-control, accept ing respon si bil ity, and escape-avoidance to deal with infer tility, while planned prob lem solv ing and pos i tive reap praisal were less adopted.…”

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“…Con se quently, infer tile spouses may have dif fer ent extents of emo tional reac tions dur ing the entire pro cess of treat ment. Prattke and Gass-Sternas (1993) inves ti gated the coping behav iors of 35 hus bands and 40 wives receiv ing IUI treat ment. There were also stud ies show ing that infer tile wives had greater anx i ety and depres sion than hus bands did, no mat ter whether they were receiv ing IVF treat ment for the first time, or repeat ing this treat ment (Beaurepaire et al, 1994;Chang & Kuo, 2000).…”

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“…Accom panied with com plex and lengthy pro cesses of treat ments, females suf fered more emo tional dis tur bances than their spouses did (Lee, Kuo, Lee, & Lee, 1995; Mor row, Thoreson, & Penney, 1995). Pre vi ous studies in Europe and the United States showed that, com pared with their hus bands, wives would seek more cop ing behaviors to deal with infer til ity and its treat ments (Jor dan & Revenson, 1999;Prattke & Gass-Sternas, 1993); how ever, there has been a lack of research in Tai wan in this area, although such research can yield impor tant infor ma tion for the care of infer tile cou ples. In stud ies of psy cho logi cal dis tress, hus bands revealed sig nif i cantly less dis tress than wives , and wives appeared to experi ence more stress from infer til ity tests and treat ments than their hus bands (Lee, Chao, & Sun, 2001).…”

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Evaluations of Emotional Reactions and Coping Behaviors as Well as Correlated Factors for Infertile Couples Receiving Assisted Reproductive Technologies

Hsu

Kuo

2002

Journal of Nursing Research

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AB STRACT: The pur pose of this research was to explore the fol low ing objec tives for infer tile cou ples receiv ing infer til ity treat ment: Dif fer ences between wives and hus bands in their emo tional reac tions and cop ing behav iors. This research, using struc tured ques tion naires, was based on 120 infer tile cou ples attend ing the Intrauterine Insem i na tion (IUI) or the In Vitro Fer til iza tion-Embryo Trans fer (IVF-ET) pro gram. The research instru ments con sisted of Demo graphic Data Form, Pro file of Mood States (POMS), and Ways of Coping Ques tion naire. The research results showed that infer tile wives expe ri enced more emo tional dis tur bance than hus bands did, as shown in the four subscales of Ten sion-Anxiety, Depres sion-Dejection, Anger-Hostility, and Fatigue-Inertia, as well as the total scale of POMS. It was also shown that wives adopted more cop ing behav iors to deal with infer til ity and treat ment than hus bands did, as revealed in the subscales of Self-Controlling, Seeking Social Sup port and Escape-Avoidance and the total scale of the Ways of Coping Ques tion naire. All of the above reached sig nif i cant sta tis ti cal dif fer ences. The emo tional reac tions of infer tile cou ples var i ed with the dif fer ences in edu ca tion lev els, dura tion of treat ment, num ber of treat ments received, and num bers of exist ing chil dren. The emo tional reac tions of infer tile hus bands had a sig nif i cantly pos i tive cor re la tion with the fac tors Con fronting, Accepting Respon si bil ity, and Escape-Avoidance. The emo tional reac tions of wives had a sig nif i cantly neg a tive cor re la tion with Pos i tive Reap praisal. The research results can pro vide clin i cal staff with a cor rect under stand ing of the dif fer ences between hus bands and wives in emo tional reac tions and cop ing behav ior, as well as related fac tors, to help them to pro vide better med i cal treat ment. Key Words:In fer til ity, as sisted re pro duc tive tech nol ogy, emo tional re ac tion, cop ing be hav ior.

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Evaluations of Emotional Reactions and Coping Behaviors as Well as Correlated Factors for Infertile Couples Receiving Assisted Reproductive Technologies

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2002

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“…Bei der Einführung zentraler Spenderregistrierungen in Groûbritannien durch den HFEA (1990) und in Schweden (1992) Die Untersuchungen bestätigen übereinstimmend, daû die überwiegende Mehrheit der Paare nach der Spenderinsemination eine Verbesserung der Partnerschaftsqualität angaben (Gillet et al 1996;Durna et al 1995;Daniels et al 1996;Prattke et al 1993;Klock et al 1994;. Leider beschreiben die Untersuchungen nicht die Mechanismen, die dazu führen.…”

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