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Volume 5, Issue 8(Suppl) J Nurs Care 2016
ISSN: 2167-1168 JNC, an open access journal
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The impact of psychological response level and social support on the marital adjustment of
women who have undergone infertility treatment
Funda Özdemir1 and Derya Dayıcan Özbek 2
1Ankara University, Turkey
2Hacettepe University Hospital, Turkey
The research was conducted as a definitive survey in order to identify the impact of psychological response level and social
support on the marital adjustment of women who applied to the IVF unit of a university hospital in Ankara province.
The population of the survey consisted of 150 volunteer women applied to the IVF unit for infertility treatment from July
2015 to January 2016 who were at least elementary school graduates, did not have any chronic disease, did not have any
psychiatric problem, and who were open to verbal communication. The approval of the Ethical Board and the required permits
were obtained for the survey. Data was collected using an introductory information form, marital adjustment scale (MAS),
infertility distress scale (IDS) and multidimensional scale of perceived social support (MSPSS). The obtained data was analyzed
using percentage, average and standard deviation, Student’s t test, Kruskal-Wallis, One way ANOVA and Mann-Whitney U test
statistic and Spearman correlation analysis. The mean age of women participated in the survey was 31.04±4.84. The infertility
type of 86% of the participants was primary and the infertility type of 14% of the participants was secondary. The infertility
period of 12.7% of women was less than 1 year, and the same was 1 - 5 years for 62.7% and 6 years and over for 24.7%. The
infertility treatment period of 21.3% was less than 1 year the same period was 1-5 years for 62.0% and 6 years and over for
16.7%. The average points obtained from the MAS of the participants was 41.49±7.74 and the average points obtained from
IDS was 41.09±9.61. The average point obtained from the MSPSS was 57.02±15.59. The average point obtained from the family
support sub-dimension of the MSPSS was 23.15±4.54, and the average points obtained from the friend support and private
person support was 19.61±6.45 and 14.25±8.29, respectively. Depending on the definitive features of women undergone an
infertility treatment, the difference among the average MAS scores was stated to be insignificant (p>0.05). The difference
between the infertility treatment period and average MAS scores of women was significant; and the average MAS scores
of women who had undergone treatment for less than 1 year was identified to be higher than the ones who had undergone
treatment for 1 to 5 years and 6 years and over (KW=7.606 p=0.02). There is a significant but reverse directed, medium strength
relation between MAS score and IDS scores (r=-0.584, p<0.001). There is a significant relation between the MAS score and
MSPSS (r=0.398, p<0.001) and its sub-dimension in the same direction (family support: r=0.507, p<0.001; friend support:
r=0.336, p<0.001; private person support: r=0.200, p=0.014). It was identified that the psychological response level caused by
infertility and treatment period influenced the marital adjustment in a negative manner while the perceived social support
influenced the marital adjustment in a positive manner.
Biography
Funda Özdemir is an Associate Professor at the Ankara University. She has graduated from Ataturk University School of Nursing in 2001. She was a Lecturer at
the Ataturk University; an Assistant Professor at the Ankara University.
Funda Özdemir et al., J Nurs Care 2016, 5:8(Suppl)