Quality of Life among Iranian Infertile Women in Postmenopausal Period: A Cross-sectional Study.
OBJECTIVE
Infertility has a significant impact on a women's quality of life (QOL). Infertile women face with physical and mental challenges during their postmenopausal period. Therefore, the present study aimed to evaluate the QOL among Iranian infertile women in the postmenopausal period using a valid and reliable instrument.


METHODS
In this cross-sectional study both snowball and social networking methods were used for sampling. Two demographic and QOL questionnaire were used for data collection. The QOL questionnaire includes 41 items which measure the QOL in five dimensions: socioeconomic, mental health, religiousness, physical health and future imagining. Data analyzed was carried out in IBM SPSS ver. 20.0 using descriptive statistic, χ(2) test, and Fisher test. A P value of 0.01 or less was considered significant.


RESULTS
Overall 211 eligible participants were studied. Some participants obtained full score on socioeconomic, religiousness, physical health and future imagining dimensions of QOL but none on the mental health dimension of the QOL. Only, 6.6% of study participants have a good QOL. There was a significant relationship between age and financial provider whit status of QOL.


CONCLUSIONS
Most Iranian infertile women in the postmenopausal period have poor or moderate QOL. Therefore, improving the QOL among these women should be considered.
Department of Nursing and Midwifery, Psychosocial Injuries Research Center, Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam, Iran.
Ashraf
A
Direkvand-Moghadam
Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Psychosocial Injuries Research Center, Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam, Iran.
Ali
A
Delpisheh
Mental Health Research Group, Health Metrics Research Center, Iranian Institute for Health Sciences Research, Tehran, Iran.
Ali
A
Montazeri
Department of Community Medicine, Psychosocial Injuries Research Center, Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam, Iran.
Kourosh
K
Sayehmiri
Dimensions of quality of life; Infertility; Iranian women; Menopause