One in six Australian couples currently struggle with impaired fertility. In vitro fertilisation (IVF) has become the assisted reproductive technology (ART) of choice. The IVF process has inherent stresses: the invasive procedures; medication; knowledge that it might be the last possibility for pregnancy; and the high cost. Both authors have observed in different settings (one clinical and the ...

Gestational Trophoblastic Disease encompasses a group of pregnancy-related disorders that derive from the placenta. Taking Leventhal’s Common Sense Model as a starting point, this study aims to investigate how illness perception could influence patients’ psychological adaptation to these rare diseases. Thirty-seven women completed: the Illness Perception Questionnaire-Revised, the Beck Depressi...

STUDY QUESTION Do the strategies women use to disclose information about their infertility to social network members impact the quality of the support they receive and their quality of life? SUMMARY ANSWER The data showed that women who disclosed infertility-related information in direct ways, rather than in indirect ways (e.g. by incremental disclosures or through third parties), to social n...

BACKGROUND Using appropriate coping strategies has a positive influence on moderating mental pressures caused by infertility and the stress during treatment. Using these strategies needs personal skills and they could be influenced by individual's inner psychological and environmental factors. The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between the attitude toward infertility and copin...

the main purpose of this paper has been to discuss the effects of psychological stress and other environmental factors on incidence of diseases. we were specifically concerned with stress that increased susceptibility of uninfected hosts when exposed to infection. if such stresses also reduced resources, fecundity and/or survivorship, there was a reduction in the host carrying capacity. in addi...

Background: Infertility in couples who fail to get pregnant after one year of sexual intercourse without contraception is called. approximately 40% of infertility problems in men, 40% women and 10% of androgynous, 10% is unknown. Therefore, the awareness of the different kinds of infertility treatment is effective. Materials and Methods: Study overview, the present Internet search at timescales...

Punicalagin is isolated from pomegranate and widely used for the treatment of different diseases in Chinese traditional medicine. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of Punicalagin (purity ≥98%) on oxidative stress induced testicular damage and its effect on fertility. We detected the antioxidant potential of punicalagin in lipopolysaccharide (LPS) induced oxidative stress damage in testes,...

conclusions our results show that oxidative stress could play an important role in male infertility as well as in sperm motility and sperm morphology. patients and methods this case control study was conducted using 35 men with idiopathic infertility and 34 men with proven fertility. seminal plasma tac and mda were measured by ferric reducing ability of plasma (frap) and thiobarbituric acid (tb...

background: sperm dna damage is an important factor in the etiology of male infertility. objective: the aim of the study was to evaluate the association of oxidative stress induced sperm dna damage with the pathogenesis of male infertility. materials and methods: the study comprised a total of 66 subjects, including fertile men (n=25) and infertile men (n=41) matched by age. seminal malondialde...