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Infertility experience in postmenopausal women: A phenomenological study
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Ashraf Direkvand-Moghadam   , A. li Delpisheh , Mosayeb Mozafari |
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| Introduction: Identifying
the dimensions of infertility experience in postmenopausal women, would help
determining the woman's needs and may lead to appropriate design of intervening
strategies in order to improve the quality of their lives. Therefore, this
phenomenological study was aimed to evaluate the experience of infertility in
postmenopausal women. Materials and Methods: in this phenomenological study, 8 postmenopausal infertile women were
evaluated. The inclusion criteria at the time of study were: termination of
menstruation for at least one year and have never been pregnant before. Women who were menopause with surgical
or medical interventions were excluded. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews. Purposeful sampling was continued
until data saturation. Data analysis was performed simultaneously with data
collection. To
ensure the accuracy of data interpretation, other colleagues also reviewed the
data.
To determine the validity
of the findings, results
were returned to some of the participants for further evaluation. Results: According to the codes and categories
obtained in this study a main concept of experiences named the mother concept and other eight sub-concepts
including the social
relations,
insecurity,
resourcefulness, culture, spirit,
cause of infertility, beliefs and barriers to treatment, were extracted. Conclusions: Infertility is a very important and crucial concept in
the life of most women. Infertility affects many aspects of the women’s
life. This situation is more obvious at the end of the child bearing years and
beginning of menopause. Studying the dimensions and importance of infertility
for postmenopausal women would lead us to the identification of the
perspectives and needs of infertile women. |
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| Keywords: Infertility, Menopause, Qualitative Research, Needs Assessment |
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Type of Study: Research |
Subject:
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Received: 2014/07/6 | Accepted: 2014/12/22 | Published: 2015/06/10
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