Predictors of psychological distress in patients starting IVF treatment: Infertility-specific versus general psychological characteristics

Human Reproduction

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1471-1480

  Van Den Broeck, Uschi ^a,b   D'Hooghe, Thomas ^a   Enzlin, Paul ^b   Demyttenaere, Koen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Coping; Intrusiveness; IVF ICSI; Personality characteristics; Psychological distress

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; COUNSELING; DATA ANALYSIS; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTROSPECTION; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATH ANALYSIS; PERSONALITY; PREDICTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

EID: 77952830609     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deq030     Document Type: Article

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