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

/A0 sites75 target enrollmentOctober 14, 2022

ConditionsDetermine 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

Overview

Phase: Phase 1
Intervention: Not specified
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.
Sponsor: /A
Enrollment: 75
Status: Completed
Last Updated: last year

Overview Investigators Eligibility Criteria Outcomes Similar Trials

Overview

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.

Registry

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Start Date

October 14, 2022

End Date

April 30, 2023

Last Updated

last year

Study Type

Interventional

Sex

All

Investigators

Sponsor

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

•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.

Exclusion Criteria

•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.