The impact of spirituality/religiosity on distress in infertile women.

Human infertility: is medical treatment enough? A cross-sectional study of a sample of Italian couples

“…In line with the World Health Organisation's definition of reproductive health as 'a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity' [2] and with previous international literature this research confirms that infertility health care professionals and public services should consider providing not only biological treatments, but should also consider offering involuntary childless couples access to counselling services, to take care of their infertilityrelated psychological [69][70][71], ethical [45,72,73] and religious [66,74,75] needs.…”

“…The study can be seen as providing evidence of the beneficial effects of attention to couples' ethical and religious needs [66] as can inferred from the lower level of depression of couples who received religious help, and from the higher use of positive coping strategies of couples who received ethical guidance. This result may be relevant for the debate concerning the relationship between religion and health [67], and between ethical boundaries and couples' needs [35,47,68].…”

Incorporating spirituality in psychosocial group intervention for women undergoingin vitrofertilization: A prospective randomized controlled study

“…Nonetheless, Roudsari, Allan, and Smith (2007) reviewed the literature on religion/spirituality and infertility from 1985 to 2007 and found that few empirical studies have been conducted on the relationship between the two. In one of such studies, Domar et al (2001) found that higher levels of spiritual well‐being were significantly associated with less distress and depressive symptoms related to infertility.…”