The Experiences of Involuntarily Childless Turkish Immigrants in the Netherlands

Rooij, Floor B. van; Balen, Frank van; Hermanns, J.M.A.

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“…In the current study lack of relationship intimacy was reported as one of the effects of infertility related to concentrating on having sexual relation to become pregnant. Consistently, in a study of Turkish women, the respondents reported negative influence of fertility problems on the sexual relationships within couples as change in the patterns of their relationships, tension and arguments between partners [36].…”

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Missing Motherhood: Jordanian Women's Experiences with Infertility

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Hamlan

Callister

2014

Advances in Psychiatry

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Aim, Background, and Introduction. Bearing and rearing children are an important part of life in nearly all cultures and are a central role for Jordanian Muslim women. Infertility can create anxiety, stress, and depression for couples who are infertile. Women frequently bear the emotional stigma of a couple's infertility. There is a paucity of literature focusing on Jordanian Muslim women experiencing infertility and failed assistive reproductive technology. Therefore, this study explored these women's lived experience. Methods. Qualitative data were collected through interviews with 30 Jordanian Muslim women who experienced failed assistive reproductive technology for infertility. Perceptions of experiences with failed treatment of infertility were documented and analyzed. Results. Major themes were identified: missing out on motherhood and living with infertility, experiencing marital stressors, feeling social pressure, experiencing depression and disappointment, having treatment associated difficulties, appreciating support from family and friends, using coping strategies, and fear of an unknown future. Discussion, Conclusion, and Implications for Clinical Practice. Being infertile significantly influences the physical, emotional, social, and spiritual health of Jordanian Muslim women as well as their quality of life. Perceived social support and personal coping strategies were used by study participants to mediate failed attempts to conceive. Designing and implementing culturally appropriate interventions for Muslim women globally who are experiencing infertility are essential.

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Missing Motherhood: Jordanian Women's Experiences with Infertility

Obeidat

Hamlan

Callister

2014

Advances in Psychiatry

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“…Infertility for British Pakistanis is therefore seen to constitute a problem not just for the individual (or couple), but one that involves extended families and wider communities (see also Schmid et al, 2004;Van Rooij et al, 2006;and Van Rooij and Van Balen, 2009, for similar findings among other minority Muslim populations in Europe). In this paper, we take the idea of relationality a stage further, by exploring the role of extended families in defining and shaping the experience of infertility in the context of changing family aesthetics.…”

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‘Everybody is moving on’: Infertility, relationality and the aesthetics of family among British-Pakistani Muslims

Hampshire

Blell

Simpson

2012

Social Science & Medicine

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(2012) Everybody is moving on' : infertility, relationality and the aesthetics of family among British-Pakistani Muslims.', Social science medicine., 74 (7). pp. 1045-1052.Further information on publisher's website:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.12.031Publisher's copyright statement: NOTICE: this is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Social science medicine. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A denitive version was subsequently published in Social science medicine, 74(7), 2012, 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.12.031Additional information: Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. For others, increasing nuclearisation of family life reduces the possibilities for extended families to 'plug the gap' by providing proxy-children and a normalised social role for infertile couples. Moreover, such social roles may be time-limited, creating serious challenges for the long-term childless, who find themselves caught 'betwixt and between' two disparate sets of values.2

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“…Although fertility research is frequently based on interviews with female patients as well as couples, the fact that couples were interviewed together can be viewed as a limitation of the study (van Rooij et al, 2009;Wilkes et al, 2009). It is possible that if both partners were interviewed separately their views would differ.…”

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“…Both female patients and couples were selected. In interview studies with infertility patients, couples and female patients are often both included (de Lacey, 2007;van Rooij et al, 2009;Wilkes et al, 2009).…”

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confidence: 99%