Coping with infertility: Distress and changes in sperm quality

Human Reproduction

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1487-1492

  Pook, Martin ^a   Krause, Walter ^a   Röhrle, Bernd ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coping; Counselling; Infertility; Sperm concentration; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COGNITION; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EMOTIONALITY; EXPECTATION; HUMAN RELATION; INFERTILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; MENSTRUATION; NONHUMAN; PATIENT COUNSELING; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; STRESS;

EID: 0033028471     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/14.6.1487     Document Type: Article

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