Attributing Factors of Depressive Symptoms in Women Undergoing Infertility Treatment

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10.2991/978-94-6463-120-3_7How to use a DOI?

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depression; infertility; infertility treatment; women

Abstract

Clinical depression occurs in 5–10% of the infertile population, and even bigger proportion up to 30% exhibits symptoms with varying intensities throughout their lives. Current studies on risks related to depressive symptoms among infertile women are limited and inconsistent. Therefore, this study aims to investigate contributing factors related to depressive symptoms among women undergoing fertility treatment. Non-probability consecutive sampling was used to obtain a total of 103 infertile women undergoing fertility treatment at Halim Fertility Clinic, Medan, Indonesia. Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) was used to assess depressive symptoms severity while multiple linear regression with a predictive conceptual framework was used to determine the relationships of each independent factor to depressive symptoms score. The multi variate end results showed that attributing factors related to the development of depressive symptoms among women undergoing infertility treatment include age p < 0.001, r = 0.283, length of education p < 0.001, r = −0.384, monthly in come p < 0.001, r = −0.308, type of infertility p < 0.001, r = 0.242, as well as the duration of infertility p = 0,032, r = 0,165. These factors were attributed to depressive symptoms by 66.4%. Based on the results, age, length of education, monthly income, type of infertility, and the duration of infertility are attributing risk factors of depressive symptoms in women undergoing infertility treatment.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Heni Indrawati Dalimunthe
AU  - Elmeida Effendy
AU  - Vita Camellia
AU  - Binarwan Halim
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/03/31
TI  - Attributing Factors of Depressive Symptoms in Women Undergoing Infertility Treatment
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Neuroscience, Neurology and Psychiatry (ICONAP 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 47
EP  - 54
SN  - 2468-5739
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-120-3_7
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-120-3_7
ID  - Dalimunthe2023
ER  -