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

Completed

• Conditions: Patient Centred Care; Infertility, Female; Quality of Life; Compliance, Treatment

• Registration Number: NCT05078996
• Lead Sponsor: Elif Balkan

Brief Summary

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".

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2020-06-01
• Primary Completion: 2020-09-20
• Study Completion: 2020-11-30
• Study First Submitted: 2021-06-19
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-10-02
• Study First Posted: 2021-10-15
• Status Verified: 2023-09
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-09-21
• Last Update Posted: 2023-09-25

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 160

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

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Treatment-related quality of life	from obtaining ethical permission to reaching sampling (approximately 6 months)	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.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Patient Centred Care	from obtaining ethical permission to reaching sampling (approximately 6 months)	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.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Elif Balkan; 🇹🇷 İstanbul, Turkey