The relationship between quality of life, perceived stress, marital satisfaction in women conceived through ART

ABSTRACT

Background

The stress experienced during pregnancy and the decrease in marital satisfaction affects the quality of life of the woman negatively.

Objective

This study conducted to determine the quality of life and the relationship with perceived stress and marital satisfaction in pregnant women with ART.

Methods

This study is a descriptive and corelational study. The study sample consisted of 120 pregnant women with ART. The patient descriptive form, the Married Life Scale (SWML), The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) and The Fertility Quality of Life (FertiQoL) were used for data collection in this study.

Results

The mean of the total score of PSS was 16.38 ± 4,721, the mean score of SWML was 23.03 ± 4.42 and the mean of the total score of FertiQoL was 81,25 ± 17,56. There was a moderate negative correlation (r = −0,551, p = 0,001) between the total score of the FertiQol and the total score of PSS and there was a moderate positive correlation (r = 0,452, p = 0,001) between FertiQol total score and SWML.

Conclusion

This study found that the rate of perceived stress affected the quality of life negatively and marital satisfaction affected the quality of life positively in pregnant women with ART.

KEYWORDS:

• Assisted reproductive technologies (ART)
• pregnancy
• quality of life
• stress
• marital satisfaction

Acknowledgments

The authors are thankful to all the study participants for granting the informed consent

and for their commitment to the study.

Author contributions

ŞYS, conceived the idea and editing of the manuscript. ŞYS and BH, did the data collection, statistical analysis, and writing of the manuscript. ŞYS, did the final review and approval of the manuscript for submission.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Ethical considerations

The study was started after ethical approval from Gazi University Ethics Commission (05/01/2016-77082166-604.01.02) and written permission from Gazi University Health Research and Application Center. The pregnant were informed about the research and their written informed consent was taken.