Abstract
Context: Infertility is one of the most painful experiences that can have a negative impact in many areas of an individual’s life. Providing quality care to infertile couples requires health professionals to explore their experiences and needs to plan effective supportive interventions.
 Objectives: To explore the experiences and needs of Moroccan infertile couples in Assisted Reproductive Technology.
 Material and Methods: This is a qualitative exploratory study. It involves 40 infertile couples (men and women) and 5 health professionals as key informants. Infertile couples were selected among those attending the first public center for Assisted Reproductive Technology in Morocco located in Rabat during the period 2017-2018. In-depth unstructured interviews, field notes were used with couples and semi-structured interviews with health professionals. The analysis of the interview data was based on a conventional content analysis method.
 Results: Five types of needs were identified among infertile Moroccan couples, namely: i. Infertility and social support; ii. Infertility and financial support; iii. Infertility and spiritual support; iv. Infertility and informational support; v. Infertility and emotional support.
 Conclusion: Infertile moroccan couples experienced many emotional, psychosocial and economic difficulties that can negatively affect their quality of life. Thus, to meet the needs and expectations of these couples alongside their medical treatment, it’s necessary to develop couple-centered approaches, which can improve their quality of life, treatment outcomes and mitigate negative psychosocial consequences.
 Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science Vol.19(4) 2020 p.697-704
Highlights
In many cultures, having a child is considered as a major social and cultural value[1]
This is a qualitative study using a content analysis approach to identify the needs of infertile couples
Exploratory questions were asked: ‘What does this mean?’ Semi-structured interviews were conducted with health professionals, namely: ‘In your opinion, what are the problems faced by infertile couples during the care phases;?‘what are their most important needs?; ‘ is the quality of the medical team’s behavior important to motivate patients to continue their treatment process?; what are your proposals to improve the care of infertile couples?’.Data collection has been completed as soon as information saturation was obtained
Summary
In many cultures, having a child is considered as a major social and cultural value[1]. In Morocco, infertility is always a painful experience, especially for the woman who is immediately held responsible To avoid this stress and life crisis,Assisted Reproductive Technology.(ART) is considered as solution[8]. The target population was infertile couples visiting the center from all Moroccan regions during the period 2017-October 2018 This is a qualitative study using a content analysis approach to identify the needs of infertile couples. Exploratory questions were asked: ‘What does this mean?’ Semi-structured interviews were conducted with health professionals, namely: ‘In your opinion, what are the problems faced by infertile couples during the care phases;?‘what are their most important needs?; ‘ is the quality of the medical team’s behavior important to motivate patients to continue their treatment process?; what are your proposals to improve the care of infertile couples?’.Data collection has been completed as soon as information saturation was obtained.
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