The effectiveness of a mindfulness-based program on stress, salivary cortisol level, marital relationships, and the incidence of successful pregnancy in infertile couples undergoing assisted reproductive treatment: mixed methods
- Conditions
- Determine the effectiveness of a mindfulness based program on stress, salivary cortisol levels, marital relationships, and number of successful pregnancies in infertile couples undergoing assisted reproductive treatment aline addition to explaining the perceptions and experiences of successful and unsuccessful pregnancies after receiving the mindfulness based program.mindfulness, infertile, stress, marital relationships, mixed methods
- Registration Number
- TCTR20221014004
- Lead Sponsor
- /A
- Brief Summary
The stress and marital relationship in the spouses of infertile women revealed a statistically significant difference over time between the experimental and the control groups. The salivary cortisol levels and the successful pregnancy rate in infertile women in the experimental group and the control groups were statistically significantly different.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 75
1. Infertile woman undergoing infertility treatment using technology-assisted reproductive treatment
2. Infertile women and spouses living together as a family in the same house.
3. Infertile women and/or spouses not diagnosed with mental illness.
4. The spouse willing to continuously participate in a mindfulness based program
5. Infertile women and spouses who can speak, read and write in the Thai language.
1.Infertile women change to use of surrogacy by the infertile women and their spouses.
2.Infertile women and spouses are living apart during ART treatment.
3.While participating in the mindfulness based-program having complications such as mental illness, ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome from ART.
4.The occurrence of a highly stressful event, such as the loss of a family member, while participating in the mindfulness based-program.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method stress beginning of study(pre-test), week 2, week 6, week8 Fertility Problem Inventory,marital relationship beginning of study(pre-test), week 2, week 6, week8 dyadic adjustment scale ,The salivary cortisol level beginning of study(pre-test), week 8 cortisol level ,The incidence of pregnancy success week 10 serum hcg
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method /A N/A N/A