A Comparative Study to Assess the Psychosocial Problems Among Infertile Males and Infertile Females Attending in Selected Infertility Clinics at Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, in View to Develop Information Booklet

Abstract

nfertility remains an important problem worldwide. Infertility affects men and women equally. In India, one in five couples is childless. Twenty per cent of the women who get married, get pregnant in the first month and another 40 by the end of six months. Of the remaining, 25 per cent get pregnant in two years’ time while 15 per cent remain childless and need help of those needing help, 25-30 per cent will require assisted reproductive technology to conceive while the rest can be treated using simple interventions. Objective of the Study: 1) To find out the psychosocial problem among infertile male and infertile female. 2) To compare psychosocial problems among infertile male and infertile female. 3) Infertile male and infertile female with selected socio-demographic variables. Hypothesis: To find out the association between psychosocial problem among the study. H1 - There will be significant difference in psychosocial problem between infertile male and infertile female. H2 - There will be significant association in psychosocial problem between infertile male and infertile female with selected socio demographic variables. Outcome: Descriptive research design will used conceptual framework is based on E. Peplau’s interpersonal theory. The tool were socio-demographic variables and self-structure questionnaire psychosocial problem inventory regarding infertility. An extensive review literature was done. Content validity of the tool was ensured by verifying it with experts. spearmen’s rank correlation coefficient formula was used for testing reliability of tool. The checklist was found reliable. A piolet study was conducted on 5 infertile males & 5 infertile females attending in infertility clinic. The main study was conducted in Makhija test tube baby center., Bilaspur and purposive sampling was done. Data collection was analyzed by a study reveals that there was find out between psychosocial problem in infertile male and infertile female attending in selected in fertility clinic reveals that stress in male, total mean was 13.93, (SD =2.318), mean percent was 46.43% and stress in female score mean was 13.57, (SD = 2.54), mean percent was 2.45 and anxiety in male mean was – 14.06, (SD = 2.61), mean percent was 46.86 %. Anxiety in female mean 14.66, (SD = 2.45) mean percent was 48.86%. Depression in male sum score was 435, mean was 14.5, (SD = 2.064), mean percent was 46.86 %, depression score in female sum score was 436, mean was 14.53, (SD = 2.446), mean percent was 48.43%. The man Whitney u test compare the psycho social problem in infertile male and infertile male the result was 0.4802 is more than the tabulated value at 0.05 level of significance hence it was effective.