AIM: This study was performed to determine the psychological factors affecting infertile women presenting at the infertility outpatients department.
METHOD: The sample of this cross-sectional study consisted of 344 women who presented at the IVF center of a special branch hospital or a university hospital, March 2008 through September 2008, as determined by the non-random sampling method. All participating women gave their informed consent. The data were collected using the Data Form that consisted of questions on socio-demographic features and the Infertility Distress Scale (IDS). In the results, percentages were provided along with the Kruskal-Wallis H, Mann-Whitney U and Spearman correlation tests.
RESULTS: The mean IDS was 39.01±9.6. There was a statistically significant linear relationship between the mean IDS score and age (r=0.106, p=0.048), marriage duration (r=0.232, p
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