Quality of life among Iranian infertile women in postmenopausal period; a cross-sectional study

Introduction: Medical Infertility has a large impact on women's quality oflife and women are faced with several physical and mental challenges. Therefore the present study designed to evaluate the quality of life among Iranian infertile women in postmenopausal period using a valid and reliable instrument. Materials and methods: In a cross-sectional study used the snowball method through professional and social networking. Inclusion criteria were included postmenopausal women with no history of pregnancy, at least one year after the start of menopause. All women with menopausal induced by surgery, drugs or chemotherapy were excluded of study. Used of both demographic and quality of life questionnaire for data collection. The quality of life questionnaire was included 41 items which measures the quality of life in five dimensions, including: Socioeconomic, mental health, religiousness, physical health and future imagining. Data analyze was carried out in IBM SPSS ver. 20.0 using descriptive statistic, x2 test, and Fisher test. Results: Overall 211 eligible participants were studied. Some participants obtaining a full score of socioeconomic, religiousness, physical health, and future imagining dimensions of quality of life but none did earn a full score of mental health of the quality of life. There was a significant correlation between mental health with religiousness, and future imagining dimensions but the correlation between mental health with socio-economic and physical health dimensions was not significant. Conclusion: Considering the socioeconomic, mental health, religiousness, physical health, and future imagining are main dimensions of quality of life in infertile menopausal women, therefore, identification and training of these factors will improve the quality of life of infertile menopausal women.

کلیدواژه ها:

Dimensions of quality of life ، Infertility ، Iranian women ، Menopause