Evaluation of anxiety in freeze-all patients

Abstract

To investigate the anxiety scores and depression scales of infertile women that applied to Bahçeci Fulya IVF Center for elective frozen blast embryo transfer between February 26, 2019, and April 18, 2019. Prospective cohort study. This study is a prospective cohort study which included 178 patients. Face to face interview in the patient's room 1 hour ago the embryo transfer was performed and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) with 21 items and Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) with 14 items were fulfilled. The age of the patients, number of previous failed trials, total follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) and human menopausal gonadotropin (HMG) doses during ovulation induction period, number of oocytes obtained after oocyte pick up, number of m2, number of frozen embryos, number of embryos remaining were recorded from the patients file The data obtained after BDI and HADS were evaluated with SPSS 15.0 program. All these parameters were analyzed in multiple regression analysis. BDI and HADS score was found to be correlated (rho:0.57 p<0.001). In the multivariate analysis no factor such as women age, number of previous failed trials, FSH and HMG doses during ovulation, number of oocytes retrieved, number of m2, number of frozen embryos, number of embryos remaining were found to have an effect the BDI and HADS. Also, the pregnancy rates were not affected according to the BDI and HADS scores stratified. Anxiety scales does not affected by the patient's ovulation induction and embryological parameters.