Stress in patients under infertility treatment
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Marina Oliveira de Carvalho [1] ; Claudia Carmo [1]
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[1] Univertsity of Algarve
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- Localización: Proceedings of the International Congress on Interdisciplinarity in Social and Human Sciences.5th - 6th May 2016 / coord. por Saul Neves de Jesus, Patrícia Pinto, 2016, ISBN 978-989-8472-82-3, págs. 737-741
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Infertility has been a problem that increased throughout the years and has been causing many negative consequencesto people who want to have a child. Stress is one of these negative consequences and can affect many other areasof life, such as professional, social and sexual; it can also affect the medical treatment (in a physiological level, suchas not producing sperms), the identity of people who have difficulties in getting pregnant and their mental health.These researches show the latest studies that demonstrate the negative influence of stress in infertile people’s livesand the importance of studying it. It was searched the key words “Stress” AND “Infertility Treatment” in academicjournals between the years 2000 to 2016 in two databases: EBSCO and Scielo. In EBSCO it was found nineteenarticles; however, three of them were about the experience of stress on patients under infertility treatment. In Scieloit was found six articles, but only two of them about the theme. In an overall review, most of the articles discussesabout the high correlation between stress level and difficulty of getting pregnant and its physiological explanation;differences of the source of stress depending on the gender, level of stress depending on the patient’s social statusand self-esteem as a psychosocial factor associated with stress during the treatment. This research indicates the lackof studies around the impact of stress in patients under infertility treatment and the need for more studies about it,to improve the quality of life in infertility patients.
