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KindMap: an e-mental health tool to promote the well-being and mental health of...

Introduction Fertility patients increasingly use web-based and mobile-based apps to access psychosocial care. These digital tools may be a helpful alternative to traditional psychological interventions. Developing and evaluating patient-centred e-mental health tools rooted in evidence-based interventions is a priority. The KindMap is a stand-alone, cost-free e-mental health intervention derived from adapting th...

Feasibility and acceptability of psychosocial care for unsuccessful fertility t...

Many people undergo fertility treatment to have biological children, but around four in ten patients complete all treatment cycles without having the children they desire. This triggers intense grief from which patients report taking on average 2 years to recover. Fertility guidelines and regulators stress the need to support patients through this process, but there is a scarcity of evaluated interventions to t...

Women's attitudes and beliefs about using fertility preservation to prevent age...

Objective: The health belief and transtheoretical model were used to describe how women make decisions about fertility preservation (FP) and identify factors that predict their decisions. Methods: This is a two-year prospective study with 107 childless women aged 30–37. Women filled an online survey assessing individual factors, intentions to do FP, variables of the health belief model, FP decisional stage and ...

Patient centred care in infertility health care: Direct and indirect associatio...

Objective To investigate whether different dimensions of patient centred care (PCC) were directly associated with wellbeing or indirectly, via lower concerns about medical procedures and/or increased tolerability of treatment. Methods Cross-sectional study with 322 women and 111 men undergoing fertility diagnosis or treatment recruited online and in clinical setting. Participants completed questionnaires that a...

Estudos psicométricos da versão em português europeu do índice de qualidade de ...

Na década de 90, a Organização Mundial de Saúde (OMS) desenvolveu dois instrumentos genéricos, de essência transcultural, para avaliação da qualidade de vida (WHOQOL-100 e WHOQOL-Bref). Em 2003, procurando responder à necessidade de desenvolver uma medida de avaliação mais breve, para uso em estudos de larga dimensão e com múltiplos indicadores ou para qualquer situação em que seja necessário um indicador de qu...

Congruence of the Marital Relationship During Transition to Parenthood: A Study...

Network support and parenting in mothers and fathers who conceived spontaneousl...

Amniocentesis due to advanced maternal age: The role of marital intimacy in cou...

The indirect effect of contextual factors on the emotional distress of infertil...

Few studies were dedicated to study the role of contextual factors, such as the socioeconomic status and urban or rural residence in emotional distress of infertile couples. This study aimed to explore the impact of contextual factors on emotional distress, either directly or by affecting the importance of parenthood in one's life, which in turn affects emotional distress. In this cross-sectional study, 70 coup...

Assessing infertility stress: Re-examining the factor structure of the Fertilit...

Background: Research has documented that fertility problems can negatively affect infertile patients life, by imposing an obstacle to one important life goal: the achievement of parenthood. The Fertility Problem Inventory (FPI) proposes a comprehensive approach in assessing infertility stress, by measuring the impact on social, marital and sexual life dimensions and the importance of parenthood in infertile pat...