Determine the effectiveness of a mindfulness based program on stress, salivary cortisol levels, marital relationships, and number of successful pregnancies in infertile couples undergoing assisted reproductive treatment aline addition to explaining the perceptions and experiences of successful and unsuccessful pregnancies after receiving the mindfulness based program. mindfulness, infertile, stress, marital relationships, mixed methods
Conditions
Interventions
1. After participant checkups, pre-test data will be collected.
2. The First meeting, the researcher will conduct the intervention will take approximately 90 minutes. Follow up by phone.
3. In the s
Experimental Behavioral,No Intervention No treatment
the mindfulness based program on stress, marital relationship quality, and pregnancy success in infertile couples undergoing ART.,standard routine nursing care
Sponsors
None listed
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 50 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Infertile woman undergoing infertility treatment using technology-assisted reproductive treatment 2. Infertile women and spouses living together as a family in the same house. 3. Infertile women and/or spouses not diagnosed with mental illness. 4. The spouse willing to continuously participate in a mindfulness based program 5. Infertile women and spouses who can speak, read and write in the Thai language.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Infertile women change to use of surrogacy by the infertile women and their spouses. 2. Infertile women and spouses are living apart during ART treatment. 3. While participating in the mindfulness based-program having complications such as mental illness, ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome from ART. 4. The occurrence of a highly stressful event, such as the loss of a family member, while participating in the mindfulness based-program.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| stress beginning of study(pre-test), week 2, week 6, week8 Fertility Problem Inventory,marital relationship beginning of study(pre-test), week 2, week 6, week8 dyadic adjustment scale ,The salivary cortisol level beginning of study(pre-test), week 8 cortisol level ,The incidence of pregnancy success week 10 serum hcg | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| N/A N/A N/A | — |
Countries
Thailand
Contacts
Public Contactchalermsri kerdmakmee
Faculty of Nursing, Thammasat University
Outcome results
None listed