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

Elif Balkan160 enrolled

Overview

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".

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

160

Conditions

Patient Centred Care Compliance, Treatment Infertility, Female Quality of Life

Eligibility

Sex: FEMALEMin age: 20 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

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

Locations (1)

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Treatment-related quality of life

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.

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

Secondary Outcomes

Patient Centred Care

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.

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