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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">2903</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"> http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2020.121817</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Exploring Quality of Life and Perceived Experiences Among Couples Undergoing Fertility Treatment in Western India: A Mixed Methodology&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Banerjee</surname><given-names>Sonali</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>N.</surname><given-names>Mary Mathews</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>22</day><month>09</month><year>2020</year></pub-date><volume>8)</volume><issue/><fpage>118</fpage><lpage>123</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Background: Diagnosis and related advanced fertility treatments are multifaceted and protracted with unstipulated outcomes. There remains a risk of bodily burden, psychological distress, furthermore may impact the quality of life among infertile couples. Objectives: Study was aimed to 1. assess the quality of life among infertile couples undergoing fertility treatment and compare it between respective partners. 2. explore in-depth their perceived experiences. Methods: Explanatory mixed method design with sequential data collection, nested sampling technique was adopted. Participants included 300 women __ampersandsignamp; 300 men attending a fertility clinic at a tertiary hospital. 300 couples were administered FertiQoL questionnaire for quantitative data collection while qualitative data were collected by in-depth interview of eleven couples, and thematic analysis was done. Ethical compliance was maintained throughout the study. Analysis: Socio-demographic data revealed that the mean age of the wives and husbands were 31.17__ampersandsignplusmn; 5.4 and 35.4__ampersandsignplusmn; 5.6 years respectively. BMI was higher in 39.7 % of wives and 58.7 % of husbands. The mean of total FertiQoL score of 300 couples in Western India was 29.3 __ampersandsignplusmn; 9.2. Wives had significantly lesser scores than their husbands in emotional (p=0.007*), social (p= 0.001*) and environmental (p=0.013*) subscales. The total FertiQoL mean scores were significantly lower among wives (p=0.001*). Themes emerged from qualitative data as a societal burden, physical pain and distress, monetary crisis and interpersonal problems. Conclusion: Infertile couples in western India reported poor QoL. Wives have poorer FertiQoL scores as compared to their partners. Couples undergoing fertility treatment face various challenges jeopardising their quality of life.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd> Infertility</kwd><kwd> Quality of life</kwd><kwd> FertiQoL</kwd><kwd> Experiences of infertile couples.</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
