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Assessment of marital intimacy and predictive factors among infertile women | |
Dr. Anjali Yadav, Dr. Ruchika Agrawal, Dr. Neetu Gupta, Dr. Ishan Agarwal | |
Background: Marital intimacy occurs when spouses express their ideas, emotions, and demands together, and is a real need for humans. The present study was conducted to assess marital intimacy and predictive factors among infertile women. Materials & Methods: 74 infertile women with history of >12 months of infertility was selected. A self-constructed questionnaire was used to gather information on the couple's age difference, educational attainment, economic status, occupations, present settlement type, length of marriage, duration of infertility, type of infertility, and reason of infertility. The Iranian version of the Marital Intimacy Needs Questionnaire Bagarozzi (IV-MINQ) was used to measure marital intimacy among study participants. There are forty-one items on it, all with Likert scale scores of ten. Emotional, psychological, intellectual, sexual, physical, spiritual, artistic, and social closeness are among the eight dimensions of intimacy. Results: Duration of infertility (years) was <2 in 14, 2-5 in 40, >5 in 20. Residence was urban in 40 and rural in 37. Economic statuswas low in 20, moderate in 38 and high in 16. Infertility type was primary in 50, secondary in 24. Infertility cause was male factor in 14, female factor in 16, both gender factors in 7 and unexplained factorsin 37. Coitus count was 1-2 times in month in 4, 1-2 times in week in 37, 3-4 times in week in 13 and >4 time in week in 3 cases. There was a significant correlation between the domains of marital intimacy. The strongest correlation value was found between the physical and sexual domains (r=0.87). There were the high correlation value between the domains of intellectual with emotional intimacy (r=0.84), and also intellectual with psychological (r=0.83). Conclusion: In the context of female infertility, early screening and psychosocial intervention techniques recommend identifying and preventing the predicted factors that may lead to marital discord. |
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