Psychosocial interventions for infertile couples: a critical review

Chow, Ka Ming; Cheung, Mei-chun; Cheung, Irene

doi:10.1111/jocn.13361

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“…For example, Hämmerli et al's (2009) meta-analysis found psychological interventions were effective at improving ART pregnancy rates but did not reduce depression or anxiety. Chow et al (2016) recently found evidence that psychosocial interventions improved psychological and pregnancy outcome in their critical review. Frederiksen et al (2015) performed a meta-analysis on 39 studies and found significant effects of psychosocial interventions on ART clinical pregnancy and that reductions in anxiety were associated with improvement in pregnancy rates.…”

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Depression and state anxiety scores during assisted reproductive treatment are associated with outcome: a meta-analysis

Purewal

Chapman

Akker

2018

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

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This meta-analysis investigated whether state anxiety and depression scores during assisted reproductive technology (ART) treatment and changes in state anxiety and depression scores between baseline and during ART treatment are associated with treatment outcome. PubMed, PsycInfo, Embase, ScienceDirect, Web of Science and Scopus were searched and meta-analytic data analysed using random effects models to estimate standardized mean differences. Eleven studies (2202 patients) were included. Women who achieved pregnancy had significantly lower depression scores during treatment than women who did not become pregnant (-0.302; 95% CI: -0.551 to -0.054, z = -2.387, P = 0.017; I = 77.142%, P = 0.001). State anxiety scores were also lower in women who became pregnant (-0.335; 95% CI: -0.582 to -0.087, z = -2.649, P = 0.008; I = 81.339%, P = 0.001). However, changes in state anxiety (d = -0.056; 95% CI: -0.195 to 0.082, z = -0.794; I = 0.00%) and depression scores (d = -0.106; 95% CI: -0.296 to 0.085, z = -1.088; I = 0.00%) from baseline to treatment were not associated with ART outcome. Clinics should aim to promote better psychosocial care to help patients manage the psychological and physical demands of ART treatment, giving realistic expectations.

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Depression and state anxiety scores during assisted reproductive treatment are associated with outcome: a meta-analysis

Purewal

Chapman

Akker

2018

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

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“…This systematic review focused on the identification of the human responses toward infertility and linked with the nursing diagnoses foci currently presented by NANDA‐I (Herdman & Kamitsuru, ). Previous literature reviews have endorsed the experience of infertility (Greil et al., ), the problems and needs of infertile patients (Hasanbeigi et al., ), and the psychosocial (Chow et al., ; Ying et al., ) and spiritual specificities of such phenomenon (Romeiro Caldeira, Brady, Timmins, et al.,2017; Roudsari, Allan, & Smith, ). This review is bringing an innovative approach based on nursing knowledge as represented in nursing standardized languages and classifications, such as NANDA‐I.…”

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“…This multidimensional disturbance and the long-term effects patients endure seemed to legitimize a wide and integrated nursing patient-centered care capable of providing skillful support through all phases of the infertile experience (Ferland & Caron, 2013). This led to several developments of nurses and midwives intervention protocols (Barber, Egan, Ross, Evans, & Barlow, 1996), psychosocial approaches (Chow, Cheung, & Cheung, 2016), and the implementation of theoretical frameworks of practice such as Kolcaba's comfort (Schoener & Krysa, 1996) and Watson's human caring (Ozan & Okumuş, 2017). Yet, a proper nursing assessment and diagnosis responsible for setting the base for an effective sensitive and holistic care appears to be missing since little research on nursing diagnoses validation in infertile patients is available.…”

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The Human Responses and Nursing Diagnoses of Those Living With Infertility: A Qualitative Systematic Review

Romeiro

Caldeira

2018

Int J of Nursing Knowl

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OBJECTIVE To systematically retrieve, critique, and synthesize patients’ human responses about living with infertility and identify possible related nursing diagnoses according to NANDA‐I. METHODS Systematic review of qualitative nursing studies. FINDINGS A total of 39 papers were included, 49 human responses, and 77 potential infertility‐related nursing diagnoses were identified across three themes. Main foci matching nursing diagnosis were related to spiritual well‐being, spiritual distress, and resilience. CONCLUSIONS Patients respond to infertility in a variety of ways and this raises the need for a more effective, holistic, and accurate nursing diagnosis. IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE The accuracy of the nursing diagnosis is critical in raising the quality of the nursing process and in meeting infertile patients’ circumstances and care expectations.

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“…According to reports by the World Health Organization in 2016, at least one of ten couples in developed countries cannot have children within five years of marriage, half of which are due to female infertility [1]. Oocyte activation inefficiency is a major problem causing female infertility [2].…”

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Regulation of [Ca2+]i Oscillations and Mitochondrial Activity by Various Calcium Transporters in Mouse Oocytes

Wang

Meng

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Oocyte activation inefficiency is one of the reasons for female infertility and Ca 2+ functions play a critical role in the regulation of oocyte activation. We used various inhibitors of Ca 2+ channels and pumps located on the plasma membrane, the endoplasmic reticulum or both, including sarcoplasmic/endoplasmic reticulum Ca 2+ ATPases (SERCAs, the main Ca 2+ pumps which decrease the intracellular Ca 2+ level by reaccumulating Ca 2+ into the sarcoplasmic reticulum), transient receptor potential (TRP) ion channel subfamily member 7 (TRPM7, a Ca 2+ /Mg 2+ -permeable non-selective cation channel), T-type Ca 2+ channels and calcium channel Orai1, to investigate their roles in[Ca 2+ ] i oscillation patterns and mitochondrial membrane potential during oocyte activation by real-time recording. Our results show that SERCAs, TRPM7 and T-type Ca 2+ channels are important for initiation and maintenance of [Ca 2+ ] i oscillations, which is required for mitochondrial membrane potential changes during oocyte activation, as well as for subsequent pronuclear formation and transition to embryo development, while the function of calcium channel Orai1 is not confirmed. Increasing the knowledge of these transporters may provide a theoretical basis for improving oocyte activation in human assisted reproduction clinics.

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Psychosocial interventions for infertile couples: a critical review

Cited by 67 publications

References 24 publications

Depression and state anxiety scores during assisted reproductive treatment are associated with outcome: a meta-analysis

Depression and state anxiety scores during assisted reproductive treatment are associated with outcome: a meta-analysis

The Human Responses and Nursing Diagnoses of Those Living With Infertility: A Qualitative Systematic Review

Regulation of [Ca2+]i Oscillations and Mitochondrial Activity by Various Calcium Transporters in Mouse Oocytes

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