Effect of Collaborative Infertility Counseling on Coping Strategies and Marital Satisfaction

Effect of Collaborative Infertility Counseling on Coping Strategies and Marital Satisfaction Among Women Undergoing in Vitro Fertilization: A Randomized Control Trial

Effect of collaborative infertility counseling on coping strategies and marital satisfaction among women undergoing in vitro fertilization: a randomized control trial

Study Overview

• Status: Recruiting
• Conditions: Fertility Issues
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Collaborative infertility counseling

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 68
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Mohamed Zoromba, PhD; Phone Number: 0201008388226; Email: zromba2010@mans.edu.eg

Study Locations

• Egypt
  • Mansoura, Egypt
    • Recruiting
    • Mansoura University hospitals
    • Contact: Mohamed Zoromba, PhD; Phone Number: 0201008388226; Email: zromba2010@mans.edu.eg

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 16 years to 41 years (Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: Female

Description

This study will include a non-probability purposive sample of 136 infertile women undergoing IVF recruiting from the outpatient clinics according to the following inclusion criteria:

• age 20 to 45 years
• having a general health score below 28,
• can read and write,

Exclusion criteria include:

• psychiatric problems,
• previous assisted reproductive technology failure,
• leave the intervention for any reason and
• women suddenly experience severe traumatic or psychological events.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: women cases	Other: Collaborative infertility counseling; Collaborative infertility counseling for coping stratigies and marital satisfaction; Other Names: Counseling
No Intervention: women control

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Coping strategies	The Ways of Coping-Revised (WOC-R) questionnaire will be adopted from Folkman, Lazarus, Pimley, & Novacek, (1987) to evaluate women coping styles. It contains 31 items and 8 subscales graded by a 3-point Likert scale. It is divided into problem-focused and emotion-focused coping strategies. The problem-focused strategy includes 4 subscales: planful problem solving, seeking social support, accepting responsibility, and positive reappraisal. The emotional-focused coping strategy includes 4 subscales: confrontive coping, self-controlling, distancing, and escape/avoidance. The responses will be rated on a 3-point scale (0 = didn't use to 2 = used all the time).	Three Months
Marital Satisfaction	The Marital Satisfaction Index (MSI) was developed by Cheung & Hudson, (1982) to measure the degree of marital satisfaction. It consists of 25 items of which 13 are positively worded and 12 are negatively worded. The responses will be rated on a 5-point Likert scale (1 = None of the time, 2 = Very rarely, 3 = Sometimes, 4 = Most of the time, and 5 = All the time). The minimum and maximum scores of the MSI are 25 and 75, respectively. The higher score (above 30) indicates women's dissatisfaction. The GHQ-28 and FPI will be used to assess women's general health and perceived fertility-related stress respectively (Goldberg & Hillier, 1979; Sherrard, Newton, & Glavac, 1999).	Three Months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Port Said University
• Collaborators: Mansoura University; Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): November 1, 2022
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): March 1, 2023
• Study Completion (Anticipated): April 1, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: December 9, 2022
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 17, 2022
• First Posted (Actual): December 21, 2022

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): December 21, 2022
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 17, 2022
• Last Verified: December 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Infertility
• Other Study ID Numbers: P.0335

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No