Marital benefit and coping strategies in men and women undergoing unsuccessful fertility treatments over a 5-year period  

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Peterson, Brennan D. ; Pirritano, M. ; Block, Jessica M. ; Schmidt, Lone

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Fertility and Sterility (keterangan: ada di ClinicalKey) vol. 95 no. 05 (Apr. 2011), page 1759-1763.
Topik: FERTILITY; Marital benefit; coping; longitudinal cohort study; couples; infertility; medically assisted reproduction; gender

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Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: F02.K.2011.03 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Objective To assess the relationship between infertility, marital benefit, and coping in a sample of men and women undergoing unsuccessful fertility treatments. Design Prospective longitudinal cohort design using multilevel modeling. Setting Danish public and private hospitals (n = 5) specializing in treating fertility patients. Patient(s) Participants were Danish men and women about to start a cycle of medically assisted reproduction treatment who were followed for a 5-year period of unsuccessful treatments. Intervention(s) None. Main Outcome Measure(s) The Copenhagen Multicenter Psychosocial Infertility research program Coping Strategy Scales and Marital Benefit Measure. Result(s) Compared with men, a greater percentage of women reported high levels of marital benefit. For active-avoidance coping, there was a significant partner effect by gender interaction. Meaning-based strategies increased between 1 and 5 years for men and women. The use of meaning-based coping had a significant positive actor effect with marital benefit for both men and women. Conclusion(s) Approximately one-third of participants undergoing unsuccessful fertility treatments reported high marital benefit as a positive consequence of the infertility experience. Partner effects for men and women related to active-avoidance coping may be related to the degree of emotional support that each spouse can offer the other, whereas differences in meaning-based coping indicate a possible timing effect related to gender.

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