Social work and infertile women

Backgrounds: One of the helpful jobs is medical social work. This profession can help infertilewomen and their families reduce issues related to infertility shock, mental health problems,family pressures and social stigma.Materials and Methods: The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-۳۰), the Beck DepressionInventory (BDI), and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADSA) are to beadministered to a number of infertile women as they visit a fertility clinic.Results: Women suffering from infertility are significantly higher in all criteria of psychologicalpathology outcomes. And probably the regression results of this study predict the sociodemographicvariables of infertile women due to the effects of age, not having at least one child,physical illness and in some cases poor support from the husband, level of education and incomedepression and anxiety.Conclusion: Infertility is not a new problem, but associated with the increasing number ofinfertile people and the complexity of their problems and the need for medical intervention.Thus, infertile women face psychological problems, family and social issues, and labels duringtheir infertility. On the other hand, often have personality traits that experience higher levels ofstress and anxiety than other people. Social workers can change their lifestyle to some extent bytraining them. Also, social medical workers, aware of the financial and economic problems ofthese people, can reduce infertile women by collecting grants. In general, social health careproviders with a holistic view and training to work in medical settings can act as an essentialelement in reducing the personal, family and social problems of infertile women. So they canspend their treatment with more peace and comfort along with family support to have children.

کلیدواژه ها:

Infertile women ، Medical social work ، Mental health problems ، Family problem ، Social tag