Assessment of psychological dysfunction associated with infertility.
An Infertility Questionnaire (IFQ) was developed to measure the specific effects of infertility on three major areas: self-esteem, blame/guilt, and sexuality. The Infertility Questionnaire, possibly in combination with a standard instrument to measure psychological distress, appears to offer a simple method of assessing the emotional impairment that accompanies infertility.
D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006167:Guilt; D006801:Humans; D007246:Infertility / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D012649:Self Concept; D012737:Sex Factors; D012735:Sexual Dysfunction, Physiological / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires