Medical successes and couples' psychological problems in assisted reproduction treatment: a narrative based medicine approach.
Summary of "Medical successes and couples' psychological problems in assisted reproduction treatment: a narrative based medicine approach."
Objective: 1) To explore the psychological processes that develop in women and men during their first pregnancy obtained with assisted reproduction treatment; 2) to individuate the main plot that women and men use to recount their transition to parenthood. Methods: A face-to-face semi-structured autobiographical interview was administered. The interview was aimed to investigate the story of pregnancy. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analyzed in order to merge principal themes. Participants: 15 Italian couples waiting for the first child after a conception with assisted reproductive technologies. Results: Medically assisted pregnancy constitutes an extremely stressful, highly medicalised experience, that the couple, however, narrated according to a basic plot consisting in four phases: doubt, final sentence, victory, monitoring. Conclusions: Results suggest that physicians can benefit from knowing the phases that infertile couples experience during pregnancy because these can serve as a framework to use in monitoring their transition to parenthood and in planning psychological support and health interventions for them.
Affiliation
Free University of Bolzano, Faculty of Education , Bolzano , Italy.
Journal Details
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Name: The journal of maternal-fetal & neonatal medicine : the official journal of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine, the
ISSN: 1476-4954
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Links
- PubMed Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22928539
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/14767058.2012.722728
Medical and Biotech [MESH] Definitions
Reproductive Medicine
A medical-surgical specialty concerned with the morphology, physiology, biochemistry, and pathology of reproduction in man and other animals, and on the biological, medical, and veterinary problems of fertility and lactation. It includes ovulation induction, diagnosis of infertility and recurrent pregnancy loss, and assisted reproductive technologies such as embryo transfer, in vitro fertilization, and intrafallopian transfer of zygotes. (From Infertility and Reproductive Medicine Clinics of North America, Foreword 1990; Journal of Reproduction and Fertility, Notice to Contributors, Jan 1979)
Couples Therapy
Psychotherapy used specifically for unmarried couples, of mixed or same sex. (From APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 1994)
Treatment Refusal
Patient or client refusal of or resistance to medical, psychological, or psychiatric treatment. (APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 8th ed.)
Emergency Medicine
The branch of medicine concerned with the evaluation and initial treatment of urgent and emergent medical problems, such as those caused by accidents, trauma, sudden illness, poisoning, or disasters. Emergency medical care can be provided at the hospital or at sites outside the medical facility.
Numerical Analysis, Computer-assisted
Computer-assisted study of methods for obtaining useful quantitative solutions to problems that have been expressed mathematically.
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