Study of the association between infertility stresses with spiritual wellbeing in infertile women referred to Mottahari hospital, Urmia, 2017

Background: Infertility is a stressful situation that has an undesirable impact on both partners, especially on mental condition of infertile women. Spiritual wellbeing may be a positive, meaningful strategy that helps them to cope with their stress, protect them against its complications.Methods: The present study has carried out about a population comprised of 134 infertile women referred to Mottahari hospital, Urmia, in January to December 2017. Assessment tools were a self-reporting questionnaire (Spiritual Well-Being Scale; SWBS) by Paloutzian & Ellison, Newton infertility-related stress questionnaire, and a demographic questionnaire. For statistical analysis, correlation coefficients test, multiple regression analysis, and logistic regression were used.Results: There was a meaningful relation of women’s spirituality wellbeing with their infertility-related stress (0.043). Moreover, effect of spirituality wellbeing and infertility-related-stress, and level of economic status was meaningful (P= 0.03, 0.04). No significant effects of age, marriage duration and educational level on women’s spirituality and their infertility-related-stress were detected (P= 0.17, 0.22, 0.75).Conclusion: Spirituality wellbeing in infertile women might use to overcome the adverse effects of the problems. Nursing interventions are recommendable to progress treatment to decrease infertility related stress in the clients.

Keywords:

infertility , stresses , spiritual wellbeing , infertile , women