Zeynab Hoseinnezhad - Master student of midwifery counseling, member of Student Research Committee, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
Forouzan Elyasi - Center for Research on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Psychiatric and behavioral research center, Institute of Addiction, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran

Backgrounds: Endometriosis is one of the most common diseases among women influencing almost 10% of women at the age of fertility. This disease does not only influence biological aspects of patient, but it also impacts on her mental health. The purpose of this study is to review the simultaneous psychiatric disorders and associated psychological factors to endometriosis .Material and Method: This study was conducted with steps consisting of search, which was carried out in the databases such as SID, PubMed, Science Direct, Scopus , Psych Info, and Google scholar search engine with the keywords like ' ' psychiatric disorders'', ' ' endometriosis ' ', ' & apos; mental health & apos; &apos, &apos ; ' sexual dysfunction ' & apos;, & apos; & apos; psychological factors' ' ' ' depression ' ' ' ' anxiety & apos; &apos , ' ' psychosis ' ' obsessive compulsive disorder ' ' and their English equivalent words. Afterwards, identifying related studies from the period of 2005 to 2019, and selection of studies organized, which were after the screening of title, abstract, and full text of 76 studies, 30 studies singled out for results declaration, and then these 30 studies were classified.Result: By investigating the studies, the results were classified into two categories of psychiatric disorders and psychological factors. Psychological factors consist of anxiety, Alexitimia, Physicalization, psychosis, neuroticism, decreased emotional function, inappropriate physical image, infertility issues, isolationism and interruptions in interactions and psychiatric disorders comprises depression disorders, depression during the pregnancy and depression at parturition time, premenstrual syndrome, anxiety disorders, body dysmorphic disorders, sexual dysfunction caused by pain. In this regard, Depression is the most common disorder, and simultaneous anxiety is the most prevalent psychological factors. In addition, it can be said that pain is the most important element in the psychological factors, and psychological factors are significant part of causing psychological disorders that all aforementioned items will have negative effects on the quality of patient's life.Conclusion: Regarding to the survey, it can be declared that endometriosis is a physical disease; however, whether the possibility of occurrence or presence of psychological symptoms is also a mental illness. Hence, it can be said that, regarding to the psychiatric disorders, this illness needs mental cares in addition to the biological treatment in order to get better results.