Belgian Fertility Clinic Staff Value Healthy Lifestyle Promotion but Lack Access to a Structured Lifestyle Modification Programme: An Observational Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Guidelines advise promoting a healthy lifestyle among patients with fertility problems as the lifestyle of women and men proved to be associated with their fertility. Australian fertility nurses were shown to lack access to structured lifestyle modification programmes, although they value healthy lifestyle promotion. This study aimed to examine whether gynaecologists also value promoting a healthy lifestyle and whether structured lifestyle modification programmes are available in Belgian fertility clinics.

Design

An observational study was conducted among health care professionals (HCPs) working in Belgian fertility clinics.

Participants/materials, setting, methods

An Australian questionnaire on attitudes and practices related to promoting a healthy lifesty

SUBMITTER: Boedt T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10659001 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature