Treatment-related Quality of Life and Patient-Centred Care With Infertility

This study was conducted in a cross-sectional descriptive type with 160 infertile women who were treated in the IVF Clinic of a university hospital between July - October 2020 in order to evaluate the effect of patient-centered care approach in infertility on treatment-related quality of life. The data of the study were collected face to face through the "Introductory Information Form" "Patient Centered Care Form for Infertile Women" and "FertiQol Treatment Module".

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Key information

Conditions

Patient Centred Care Behavior Compliance, Treatment Female Urogenital Diseases Female Urogenital Diseases and Pregnancy Complications Genital Diseases Genital Diseases, Female Health Behavior Infertility Infertility, Female Patient Acceptance of Health Care Patient Compliance Quality of Life Treatment Adherence and Compliance Urogenital Diseases

Age range

20 year and older

Sex eligibility

Female

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Elif Balkan

Istanbul, 34510, Turkey (Türkiye)

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

Diagnosed with infertility
Has no commnunication problems

Exclusion criteria

Communication problems (e.g language)
Diagnosed by diseases with reproductive problems but not infertility

Treatment and study plan

Primary outcomes

Treatment-related quality of life

Time frame: from obtaining ethical permission to reaching sampling (approximately 6 months)

FertiQol Treatment Module was used to evaluate treatment-related quality of life. This module is a sub-module within FertiQol Scale which developed by Boivin et al. (2011). Module has 10 questions about treatments physical and emotional effects. Module has two subdimensions called "Environment" and "Tolerability" and each subdimensions and total scale score can between 0-100 points.

Secondary outcomes

Patient Centred Care

Time frame: from obtaining ethical permission to reaching sampling (approximately 6 months)

Patient Centred Care Questionnaire Form for Infertile Women was used to evaluate patient centred care approach. This questionnaire was prepared by researchers according to literature (IOM, 2001; Picker, 2001).There is no scoring for this tool.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Elif Balkan

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Registry information

Official study title

Patient-Centred Care and Treatment-related Quality of Life With Infertility

Important dates

Study start: 2020
Primary completion: 2020
Study completion: 2020
First posted: Oct 15, 2021
Registry last updated: Sep 25, 2023

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