Women's psychological profile and psychiatric diagnoses and the outcome of in vitro fertilization: Is there an association?

Archives of Women's Mental Health

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 353-359

  Zaig, Inbar ^a   Azem, Foad ^a,b   Schreiber, Shaul ^a,b   Gottlieb Litvin, Yael ^a   Meiboom, Hadas ^a   Bloch, Miki ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; In vitro fertilization; Infertility; Mood; Pregnancy; Psychiatric disorder

Indexed keywords

PROGESTERONE; RECOMBINANT CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; TRIPTORELIN;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BRIEF SYMPTOM INVENTORY; CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES DEPRESSION SCALE; CHEMICAL PREGNANCY; CHRONIC STRESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEPRESSION; DSM-IV-TR; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MENTAL HEALTH; MOOD DISORDER; NIDATION; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OUTCOME VARIABLE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; WOMEN'S HEALTH; ZYGOTE;

ADULT; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84866742135     PISSN: 14341816     EISSN: 14351102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00737-012-0293-z     Document Type: Article

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