Psychological Changes in Infertile Couples and Their Management Title

Background: The World Health Organization has identified in-fertility as an important problem in reproductive health. Infer-tility is one of the individual and social problems that can lead to significant emotional, psychological and social disorders, and has multiple consequences and consequences.Materials and Methods: This is an overview article and has been compiled using library resources through a search of valid databases such as Google Scholar, SID, IranMedex, PubMed and Scopus from 2008 to 2018.Results: Infertility has been reported as a stressful, frustrating and frustrating incident in infertile couples (especially women), which can lead to sexual dysfunction, reduced self-esteem, in-creased sense of humiliation, decreased self-esteem, loneliness and rejection, feelings of guilty, anxiety, depression, disability, frustration, anger, feelings of defect and disadvantage, defect in social identity and emotional imbalance. Attention to these psychological changes and management is essential, and the following strategies for coping and managing them are recom-mended: Detecting the differences between men and women, communicating with their feelings, questioning each other s needs, participating in treatment, meeting new people, devel-oping feelings, sharing psychological burden with others, in-creasing self-esteem with the best in everything, searching for hidden concepts of infertility, and etc.Conclusion: Because attention to psychological changes in the infertile couple is an essential part in their treatment, lack of knowledge about the psychological aspects of infertility can have adverse consequences. Therefore, actions such as raising the level of people s awareness about emotional dimensions Psychological infertility, helping the infertile couples to better balance stress, helping the decision-making process, and so on

Keywords:

Infertility , Psychological Emotional Changes , Cop-ing Strategies