O-17: Survey the Psychological Disorder ofInfertility in Infertile Couples (Couples whoUndergoing for ART Protocol)

Background: Survey the Psychological disorder of infertility in infertile couples (couples who undergoing for ART protocol): Parenthood is one of the major transitions in adult life for both men and women, which is associated with major emotional sequels. This study was performed to determine the psychological impact of infertility in infertile female (IF) and their partners- normal healthy male (NHM) compared to infertile male (IM) and their partners -normal healthy female (NHF). Materials and Methods: In this descriptive analytical study, 256 subjects who attended for IVF/ICSI treatment program recruited.78 (IM) and their (NHF) partners; 50 (IF) and their (NHM) partners agreed to completed the symptoms checklist SCL-90 and Cattle anxiety questionnaires. The Persian version of checklist SCL-90 and Cattle anxiety questionnaires were used to evaluate psychological problems such as anxiety, depression, hypochondriacs, obsession, compulsion, aggression, paranoia, phobia, and psychotics in relation to patients by cause of infertility, duration of infertility, age, education, and employment of the patients and their partners.Results: This study showed that, the level of anxiety, depression, hypochondriacs, paranoia, obsession, compulsion, aggression, paranoia, and psychotics were higher than normal average in the all four groups. However, phobia, in (IF) group was higher than (NHF) group. Finding also indicated that (IM) group has higher score on anxiety, depression, compulsion, paranoia, and psychotics in compared (NHM) group. In the other hand, multivariate analysis of variance showed that in (NHM) group, the level of depression, hypochondriacs, paranoia, compulsion and psychotics were lower than the other three groups (p