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Scholars Journal of Applied Medical Sciences | Volume-13 | Issue-11
A Cross-Sectional Survey “Quality of Life and its Predictors Among Infertile Women at Selected Infertility Clinics of Bagalkot”
Shweta Goudar, Rekha K, Rohit P, Fakeerappa, Maboobi, Megha. K, Patel Nishthaben, Dr. Deelip. S. Natekar
Published: Nov. 13, 2025 | 75 50
Pages: 1864-1869
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Abstract
Background: In our society, women play an important role from birth till death. Despite showing proficiency in all their roles, in today’s modern era, women seem to be standing behind men. Infertility is a common problem affecting one couple in six. It can be defined as the incapacity to fulfill pregnancy after reasonable time of sexual intercourse with no contraceptive measures taken. Objectives: To Assess the Quality of life of Infertile women, its predictors of Quality of life and to Determine association between Quality of life and its predictors among infertile women. Methods: A cross-sectional study with the sample of 60 infertile women, selected by disproportionate stratified random sampling. WHO Quality of life scale was used to assess the data regarding quality of life and its predictors among infertile women. The data was entered in MS excel sheet and transferred to SPSS 18 for analysis. Results: Mean, SD and mean percentage of total quality of life score illustrate that, the highest mean percentage of INFERTILE women’s ( 11.72% )was found for overall domain with mean (71.5%) and SD (1.41), following by (70%) was found for physical domain with mean (21) and SD (3.35), psychological domain (59.37%) with mean (20.78) and SD (3.16), social domain (79.53%) with mean (11.93) and SD (1.82), environment domain (69%) with mean (27.66) and SD (4.0) and total QOL ( 67.97% ) with mean (88.37) and SD (13.74), and Age, Religion, Education, Occupation, Income, Type of family, Area of residence, Age of menarche, Age of marriage, No of children, History of miscarriage / stillbirth, Duration of marriage, Age of spouse, History of bad spouse bad habits, infertility treatment, Family support, and Source of information are not associated with QOL. And Housewife women’s (P< 0.000), History of irregular menstrual cycle (P< 0.006), Treatment taken for spouse (P< 0.049) and Education of spouse with PUC / higher education (P< 0.052) and Family support (P< 0.000) are Predictors of