BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Violence against women is a widespread problem and has serious implications on women's health. Infertility, in many ways, is a very stressful condition that affect social and marital life of a couple; moreover, compared to fertile women, infertile women are twice as vulnerable against violence. Our objective was to determine the prevalence of violence and define the effec...

AIM AND OBJECTIVE To study the serum prolactin levels and the serum TSH in primary infertile females. MATERIAL AND METHOD In this study, we investigated thirty women who were diagnosed cases of primary infertility, who attended the Biochemistry Department, Sir JJ Group of Hospitals, Mumbai, India, for hormonal evaluations. Thirty fertile women with similar ages were enrolled as the controls. ...

BACKGROUND Measuring the quality of life (QOL) is a benchmark in today's world of medicine. The aim of the present study was to determine the general health and QOL of infertile women and certain affecting conditions. METHODS In a cross-sectional study, 161 infertile women referring to Dr. Rostami's Infertility Center of Shiraz, Southern Iran, in 2013 were enrolled by the convenience sampling...

background: infertility is a factor which has been linked to higher prevalence of sexual dysfunctions in women; however, ambiguous results have been reported about the impact of infertility on women’s sexual satisfaction. the purpose of this study was to compare sexual and dyadic functioning in infertile and fertile women. furthermore, the associations between sexual variables and clinical vari...

objectives: this research studied and compared marital satisfaction level of the women who have infertility problem with those who does not have this problem. methods: totally 180 persons participated (90 infertile women and 90 fertile women) were participated in this study. participants were comprised of those referring to 3 tehran city infertility centers. for data gathering in this research,...

Objective: To determine marital satisfaction and its influencing factors among fertile and infertile women in Shahroud. Materials and methods: In this comparative study, 1528 participants (511 infertile and1017 fertile women) were evaluated using Enrich Marital Satisfaction Scale. Data were analyzed using chi-square and t-test. Results: A total of 1402 participants (78.7%) had high marital sati...

Background Anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) is secreted by the granulosa cells of growing follicles during the primary to large antral follicle stages. Abnormal levels of AMH and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) may indicate a woman’s diminished ability or inability to conceive. Our aim is to investigate the changes in serum AMH and FSH concentrations at different age groups and its correlation w...

BACKGROUND There are various treatment options for infertility, and new techniques are also being developed as it is an important healthcare problem affecting approximately 15-20% of married couples. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the level of infor- mation of fertile and infertile Turkish women on oocyte donation in order to understand their awareness of the legal, ethical, social a...