Emotional dimension of Quality of life and related factors for a sample of Egyptian infertile females attending the International Islamic Center

Abstract

Background: Infertility in most cultures across the world is considered as a stain and shame which leads to the infertile women suffering. It also affects all features of their quality of life (QOL). Measuring the QOL is a benchmark in today's world of medicine.Objective: to determine emotional aspect of QOL and related factors among Egyptian infertile females attending IICPSR, Al-Azhar University.Methodology: this is an analytical cross-sectional study, conducted on 320 infertile women attending the International Islamic Center for population Studies and Research (IICPSR)-Al-Azhar University. Data were collected via the QOL Questionnaire of Infertile females. Socio-demographic data also were inquired and the collected data was analyzed using descriptive and analytical statistics (SPSS 19 program).Results: data analysis revealed that the mean age of the participants was 28.99 ± 3.9, mean duration of marriage was 4.7 ± 2.7, of all the studied women 167 (52.2%) were employed, 245 (76.55%) obese or overweight, and 194 (60.6%) were living in rural area. Positive, neutral, and negative scores of QOL of infertile females were discovered among (44.1%), (43.1%), (12.8%) individuals respectively. Conclusion:Infertility has a major effect on the emotional status of the infertile women. Age of infertile females, body mass index, frequency of treatment and level of education, are found to be the most important factors affecting the QOL.

Quality of Life as Perceived by Infertile Women at Tanta City

“…Regarding mean duration of marriage, the present study demonstrated that mean duration of marriage was 4.15±1.93. This result come in line with study done by Almowafy et al, (2021) (21) , they demonstrated that mean duration of marriage wacomes7±2.7. Concerning menstrual history of the studied infertile women, the results of the present study showed that the mean age of menarche of the studied infertile women was (12.64±1.…”

“…Concerning correlation between fertility quality of life subscale and body mass index of studied infertile women the present study declared that there is a significant correlation between body mass index and emotional subscale (p=0.005). The finding of this study is symmetrical with a study carried out by Almowafy et al (2021) (21) , they illustrated that there was significant relation between BMI and emotional domain of QOL. This finding also supported by Ni et al (2021) (33) , they revealed that body mass index had negative effect on emotional QOL of studied infertile women.…”

“…The result of the present study clarifies that regarding the bio-socio demographic characteristics and family history of the studied infertile women, nearly two fifths aged more than twenty-five to thirty years old, with mean age (27.45±4.79), and the mean duration of marriage was (4.15±1.93). These findings supported by Almowafy et al, (2021) (21) who studied the emotional dimensions of quality of life and related factors for a sample of Egyptian infertile female attending the International Islamic Center and revealed that the mean age participants was (28.99±3.99) and the mean duration of marriage was (6.6±0.5) years.…”