Psychological distress among women undergoing in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer: A cross-sectional and longitudinal network analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Women undergoing in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer (IVF-ET) treatment were generally found to experience varying degrees of psychological distress across the treatment. Existing studies focused on total scores and diagnostic thresholds to characterize the symptoms' severity, which might hinder scientific progress in understanding and treating psychological distress.

Aims

We aimed to investigate (a) how depression and anxiety symptoms are interconnected within a network, and (b) the changes of the network (symptom connections and network centralities) over time, in women undergoing in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer.

Methods

A 4-wave longitudinal study was designed with 343 eligible women recruited from the Reproductive Medicine Center

SUBMITTER: Wu L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9849569 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature