The Comparison of Family Function and its Related Factors in First-Child Infertile Women and Second-Child Infertile Women after 'Two-Child' Policy in China

Qiu Tian,Chen Yuelu,Wang Wenling,Yang Yang,Wang Lianlian,Wang Fengdi,Jiang Huimin,Ting Han ,Yi Zhao ,Zhi Mao

doi:10.23937/2469-5831/1510044

Abstract

The increasing prevalence of infertility rate around the world has seriously impacted individuals, couples and families. This research identifies how infertility influences family functions in China under the newly introduced two-child policy. Specially, we compared family function between first-child infertile (FI) and second-child infertile (SI) women.

Highlights

Infertility is a disease characterized by the failure to achieve a clinical pregnancy after 12 months of regular, unprotected sexual intercourse or due to an impairment of a person’s capacity to reproduce, either as an individual or with his/her partner [1]
The psychiatric diagnostics shows 170 (50.4%) of first-child infertile (FI) families and 157 (66.8%) of second-child infertile (SI) families had a poor family function (P < 0.001)
According to the correlation analysis, we found that infertility women with lower education level and lower family income are more associated with an unhealthy family function (p < 0.05)

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Introduction

Infertility is a disease characterized by the failure to achieve a clinical pregnancy after 12 months of regular, unprotected sexual intercourse or due to an impairment of a person’s capacity to reproduce, either as an individual or with his/her partner [1]. The inability to reproduce naturally can cause feelings of shame, guilt, and low self-esteem. These negative feelings may lead to varying degrees of depression, anxiety, distress, and a poor quality of life. Infertility is thought of a major life crisis which causes serious mental problems and stressful experience for those women [5]. High anxiety [6], low marital and sexual satisfaction [7], more psychiatric disorders [6,8,9], reduced quality of life [10], and high depression prevalence [6,11,12] have been reported in infertile patients. We compared family function between first-child infertile (FI) and second-child infertile (SI) women

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