Smartphone-supported Positive Adjustment Coping Intervention (PACI) for couples undergoing fertility treatment: A randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Couples undergoing fertility treatment experience emotional stress. Meta-analyses show heterogeneous results regarding the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions on anxiety and depression.

Objective

The aim of this study was to reduce psychosocial stress (anxiety, depression) in infertile patients. In addition, pregnancy rates and perceived distraction as well as perceived subjective relief were determined.

Methods

In a two-arm RCT we used "Positive Adjustment Coping Intervention (PACI)". Participants received the first of 13 daily text messages on their smartphones on the day on which the cryopreserved embryos were thawed or one day after oocyte aspiration. Patients in the PACI condition obtained daily positive adjustment statements and were asked to

SUBMITTER: Kremer F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12685219 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature