Impact of Group Psychological Interventions on Pregnancy Rates in Infertile Women

Overview

Journal Fertil Steril

Specialty Reproductive Medicine

Date 2000 Mar 25

PMID 10731544

Citations 48

Authors

A D Domar

D Clapp

E A Slawsby

J Dusek

B Kessel

M Freizinger

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Abstract

Objective: To determine the efficacy of two different group psychological interventions on viable pregnancy rates in women experiencing infertility of less than 2 years' duration.

Design: Prospective, controlled, single-blind, randomized study.

Setting: Large tertiary-care teaching hospital.

Patient(s): One hundred eighty-four women who had been trying to get pregnant for 1 to 2 years.

Intervention(s): Participants were randomized into a 10-session cognitive-behavioral group, a standard support group, or a routine care control group. They were followed for 1 year.

Main Outcome Measure(s): Viable pregnancy.

Result(s): Sixty-four [corrected] women discontinued participation in the study within the first year. There were a total of 47 in the cognitive-behavioral group, 48 in the support group, and 25 in the control group. There were statistically significant differences between participants in the two intervention groups versus the control group.

Conclusion(s): Group psychological interventions appear to lead to increased pregnancy rates in infertile women.

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