Abstract
Anxiety in men undergoing different stage of infertility in China:Stage of diagnostic investigation and stage of ART treatments
Highlights
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 8–10% of couples experience difficulties in conceiving [1]
For men undergoing assisted reproductive technology (ART) treatments, the risk factors independently associated with state anxiety were financial burden of treatment (OR=0.53, 95% CI=0.36-0.79), and history of ejaculation failure (OR=0.47, 95% CI=0.25-0.89)
For men undergoing ART treatments (OR=0.53, 95% CI=0.330.84) and diagnostic investigation (OR=0.38, 95% CI=0.17-0.84), the risk factor independently associated with trait anxiety was the same: financial burden of the treatment (Table 4)
Summary
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 8–10% of couples experience difficulties in conceiving [1]. Besides being a medical condition in itself, infertility has a significant impact on people’s well-being and quality of life [5,6,7,8]. Anxiety significantly affect the quality of life of infertile couples [10,11] and their ability to cope with infertility treatment, pregnancy, and parenting [12,13]. It sometimes becomes a clinically important problem in its own right, and deserves more clinical attention
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