The Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) supports the inclusion all non-experimental infertility treatments as covered benefits in public private health insurance plans. Infertility is a disease reproductive system, treatment should not be considered elective. All women who require gonadotoxic therapies to treat medical conditions such cancer offered option cryo...

INTRODUCTION Infertility is the problem of 15% of young couples in different societies. One of the factors that could affect fertility is oxidative stress. Therefore, the aim of the present study is to investigate the level of Melatonin, a free radical scavenger, and its correlation with oxidative biomarkers in infertile men. METHODS For this purpose, fertile and infertile men in 2 groups, 30...

Using a random sample of 580 Midwestern women, we test the hypothesis that women who have experienced infertility report higher psychological distress. Approximately one third of our sample reports having experienced infertility sometime in their lives, although the majority of the infertile now have biological children. Drawing hypotheses from identity and stress theories, we examine whether r...

Evaluation of Infertility-related Stress and its Associated Factors in Infertile Clients: A Cross-Sectional Study

OBJECTIVE To determine whether important racial, ethnic, or socioeconomic status (SES) health disparities exist in infertility, impaired fecundity, or infertility treatment. DESIGN Four waves of the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) were pooled. Measures were compared across various race/ethnicity, education, and age groups. PARTICIPANT(S) Data for 31,047 women 15-44 years old from th...

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