Psychological Disorders in Infertile Women Treated with IVF

Background: Infertility and treatment is a source of psycho-logical disorders in infertile women. Although in vitro fertiliza-tion (IVF) has been able to open up many hopefuls for infertile couples, it also has its own problems and has led them to tol-erate more stress and longer treatment cycles. Many evidence suggests psychological problems caused by infertility can be a contributing factor in intensifying infertility and failure of its therapies as long as anxiety and depression have been identified as the possible cause of failure of the first period of IVF. The present study aimed at investigate the review of psychological disorders in infertile women undergoing IVF treatment.Materials and Methods: This review study was conducted by searching the Proquest, Science direct, PubMed, Iran doc, Sid (2000-2018) databases with the keywords Infertility, Psycho-logical disorders, IVF , from domestic and foreign studies.Results: IVF is a stress reliever for patients that requires a lot of invasive procedures. Evidence suggests that in addition to bio-medical factors, psychological factors and psychological status of people such as anxiety and depression are effective on the out-come of treatment. Women who are treated with IVF are usually due to infertility and fear of anxiety and depression. Some of the common psychological responses to IVF treatment are: depres-sion, anger, feelings of guilt and sadness, anxiety and depression. Some scholars believe that psychological counseling is necessary before and during treatment for the success of treatment.Conclusion: The results of the studies indicate that psychologi-cal disorders can be a threat to the outcome of IVF treatment. Anxiety also leads to increased intestinal cortisol and prolactin levels. Therefore, it is necessary to attend infertility treatment centers, along with the medical group, psychologists and family counselors, and provide their services in different stages, which will reduce the psychological symptoms, increase mental health and the rate of pregnancy in infertile women

Keywords:

Infertility , Psychological Disorders , In Vitro Fertili-zation