title: Increasing and decreasing factors of hope in infertile women with failure in infertility treatment: A phenomenology study.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Assisted reproductive technology (ART) provide the hope of pregnancy for infertile women, but do not always turn this hope into reality.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this study was to explore the lived experience of infertile women from increasing and decreasing factors of hope in infertile women with failure in infertility treatment.
  
  
  METHODS
  Using a qualitative research design (Phenomenology study), 23 subjects were selected who had experienced infertility failure visited by gynecologist (Rasekh Infertility center) in 2012. The data were collected through semi structured interviews and analyzed using interpretive research strategies of phenomenology by Collizi's seven-stage method.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Totally 96 codes were identified. The data arranged in two categories. The factors decreasing and increasing hope in infertility treatments. Totally 5 themes and 20 sub themes were extracted. The increasing factors which emerged from the data contain "spiritual source", "family interaction and support" and "information through the media", and decreasing factors contain "nature of treatments" and "negatively oriented mind".
authors.affiliation: Deprtment of Mental Health, Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, Jahrom, Iran.
authors.forename: Leili
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Mosalanejad
authors.affiliation: Department of Maternity, Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, Jahrom, Iran.
authors.forename: Nehle
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Parandavar
authors.affiliation: Department of Maternity, Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, Jahrom, Iran.
authors.forename: Morteza
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gholami
authors.affiliation: Department of Maternity, Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, Jahrom, Iran.
authors.forename: Sareh
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Abdollahifard
keywords: Assisted reproductive technology; Hope; Infertility; Phenomenology; Qualitative research