Level of depression and hopelessness among women with infertility during the outbreak of COVID-19: a cross-sectional investigation

Background: Novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak negatively impacted on the mental wellbeing of infertile couples, because World Health Organization’s recommendation to stop all fertility treatments. This study aims investigate level depression and hopelessness during COVID-19 outbreak, in women with primary secondary infertility. Methods: A 16-item online questionnaire was applied a total 220 infertility June 2020. Participants’ knowledge concerns about pandemic treatments follow-up preferences were evaluated. In addition, Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) Hopelessness Scale (BHS) adapted Turkish each participant. Total scores inventories between calculated. The correlation levels groups Results: BDI BHS mean who completed our 14.63 ± 9.123 5.43 5.026 Cronbach’s α-values 0.853 0.904, respectively. It found that 142 had higher (15.92 9.758, 11.81 6.501; P = 0.001) VS 78 (6.51 5.262, 3.78 3.670; 0.000). strong positive detected for group (r 0.625, 0.000 r 0.740, Conclusions: both outbreak. Particularly, mild low hopelessness.