Onm-8: Psychiatric Problems in Infertile Women Referring to Infertility Clinic of Hamadan Fatemyeh Hospital

Background: Infertility is an emotional crisis with physical, economic and psychosocial challenges, because it interferes with all personal life aspects. This event is a sever tension of life and produces strong emotional shock in the infertile couple. This study is done with the aim of determination the psychiatric problems of infertile women referring to infertility clinic of Hamadan Fatemyeh Hospital. Materials and Methods: This is a descriptive study. Sample size was 200 infertile women which were selected by convenience sampling. Data was collected by a demographic questionnaire and SCL90, and analyzed through descriptive statistics. Results: Our study indicates that infertile women experienced 9 categorize of SCL90 respectively: depression 22.5%, paranoidideation 20%, psychosomatic 14.8%anxiety 6%, phobia 4%, obsession 4%, interpersonal sensitivity 2%, psychotics 4% and no experienced hostility. Conclusion: It seems women experience more stress in personal, social and sexual life and women are more sensitive to infertility phenomena that probably is due to cultural problems, mental susceptibility and/or special forms of social communication