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Evaluation of depression and anxiety in couples with infertility and related factors
, Seyedeh Reyhaneh Yousefi Sharami, Setare Nasiri, Shahrzad Aghaamoo, Abbas Ziari,
Volume 78, Issue 8 (11-2020)
Abstract
Background: Infertility is associated with high levels of stress which can pose a tremendous challenge on treatment. These psychological disorders such as depression and anxiety among the barrens are very important and have a crucial role as well. On-time detection and evaluation of such disorders are effective in the successful treatment of infertility. Some variables can interfere and influence on psychological occasions, such as education, age and duration of infertility. This study aims to investigate depression and anxiety on couples with infertility.
Methods: In this study, 60 infertile couples were enrolled. Thirty couples with male factors and 30 couples with female factors. The study is a cross-sectional study carried out in the Amiralmomenin Hospital of Semnan, Iran in 2016-2017. Symptoms of psychological disorders were documented via questioner. Date were entered into SPSS software, version 23 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA), P<0.05 was significant.
Results: We figured out that 15% of women and 13% of men had clinical depression. Severe anxiety was found in 30% of women and 6% of men. We found that there is a significant correlation between depression and duration of infertility in women but not in men. Whereas there is not any significant relationship between both of the disorders and level of education in the patients.
Conclusion: This study showed that depression level among half of infertile women and one-third of infertile men were more than healthy men and women. One of the reasons could be family problems and pressure to get pregnant. The psychological burden of infertility can affect the whole life of the infertile couple. Fear of an ambiguous future after infertility treatment failure, expensive treatment and its outcomes can be so annoying for many men and women. Most of these problems are hidden from the eyes of the treatment team. Take a deep look at what infertile women and men say showed that they need the support of their spouses, friends and family, the medical team and insurance services.

The relationship between infertility and abortion with celiac disease in southern Iran: a cross-sectional study
Ramin Niknam, Laleh Mahmoudi,
Volume 78, Issue 9 (12-2020)
Abstract
Background: Celiac disease (CD) is a common disease caused by autoimmunity to the gluten protein. Although some studies have shown an association between infertility and abortion with CD, there are many risk factors that may influence this relationship that should be addressed in the researches. Therefore, we designed this study to evaluate this association with respect to these confounding factors.
Methods: This study was designed to investigate the association between infertility and abortion with CD in women who were referred to the celiac clinic in Fars province, from October 2017 to April 2020. CD was defined as an increase in serum levels of tissue transglutaminase antibodies and histological confirmation of a small bowel specimen, infertility with no pregnancy after 12 months of unprotected sex, and abortion with spontaneous termination of pregnancy before the 20th week.
Results: Out of 711 patients, 98 women with CD were eligible for inclusion. The mean age (SD) was 31.73 (7.52) ranging from 19 to 45 years. 27 (27.6%) and 39 (39.8%) patients had a history of infertility and abortion, respectively. According to Robust Poisson regression models, weight loss with a body mass index of less than 18.5 kg/m2 was significantly associated with infertility (PR=0.779, CI95%=0.640-0.950, P=0.013) and abortion (PR=0.794, CI95%=0.649-0.971, P=0.025), but other variables such as age, ethnicity, education level, gastrointestinal manifestations, tissue transglutaminase antibody level, histological severity, family history of CD, and history of cousin marriage were not significantly associated with infertility or abortion.
Conclusion: In this study, weight loss due to long-term malnutrition was suggested as an important risk factor for fertility problems in CD. There was no significant association between infertility and abortion with other variables such as the level of anti-transglutaminase antibody and histological findings. Therefore, routine use of antibody levels and evaluation of the severity of histological findings as criteria for predicting the risk of abortion or infertility in these patients is not recommended until further research is performed.

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