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Effect of Continuous Care Model on Quality of Life and Treatment Associated with Infertile Women Fatemeh Rahimikian (MSc) *,Masoomeh Fadaee (MSc), Maryam Damghanian (PhD), Ensieh Shahrokhnejad Tehrani (Gynecologist), Abbas Mehran (MSc) *Nursing and Midwifery Care Research Center School of Nursing and Midwifery Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Tehran University
of Medical Sciences
Infertility around the world and in all cultures as a stressful experience, and threatening the stability of individual, marital, family and community known and as a crisis effect on various areas of quality of life in women. In addition treatment, infertile women need to education and continuous care. This study aimed to determine the effect of education based on continuous care model on quality of life in infertile women. In this semi-experimental study, 80 infertile women who had referred to infertility centers selected from Tehran University of Medical Sciences during 2015 were included by simple (convenient) sampling method. Information was obtained by midwifery- personal profile questionnaire and Fertility quality of life questionnaire (Ferti Qol). For applying continuous care model in the intervention group, 2 to 3 sessions, depending on their needs were held during 7-10 days by lecture , question and answer and booklet were presented to them. Quality of life in infertile women was evaluated during two stages: before intervention and 2 months after intervention in evaluation stage. Data analysis was done through SPSS 21 and using the chi-square, fisher, s exact test, independent t-test and paired t-tests and the significance level was considered less than 0.05 Results of this study showed that in Test group, after intervention, average rating of the quality of life in all areas, including the emotional, mind/body, interpersonal communication, social communication, quality of life associated with infertility treatment and total quality of life, statistically significant increase compared to the baseline (p<0.001). A statistically significant difference between the two groups in terms of rating the overall quality of life and different areas it was observed (P<0.05)(Table 1).
Conclusion
Introduction
According to project results, implementation of continuous care model improves quality of life in infertile women and it is recommended that continuous care model to be used serve as educational, easy, low cost and available model in the planning of midwifery training.
Table 1 : Comparing the Mean Scores of Quality of Life & its Domains in Two Groups
All the within group statistical analyses were performed using the
Wilcoxon test.
*Statistically significant
Methods
Domains of
QOL
Test Group
Mean
Control Group
Independent
t – test
(P-value)
Total QOL
Score
100.8
68.3
0.004
1- Emotional
8.85
16.75
0.001
2- Mind-Body
10.4
17.63
0.005
3-Interpersonal communication
12.73
19.45
0.002
4- Social communication
11.45
17.98
5- QOL
associated with infertility treatment
25.28
30.08
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