O impacto emocional e o apoio social na pandemia COVID-19 : estudo exploratório com mulheres em tratamento de infertilidade

  • Jéssica Costa Reis

Student thesis: Master's Thesis

Abstract

More and more couples are diagnosed with infertility, which can cause changes at various levels in an individual's life, such as at the personal, marital, sexual, social, family and even occupational levels. In addition to this impact, the emergence of the pandemic context by COVID-19 implied the closure of clinics that carry out medically assisted procreation treatments (PMA), so these couples were forced to postpone the possible implementation of their parental project. The main objective of this study was to understand how infertile women dealt emotionally with the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic. This was a quantitative, with had a sample of 100 infertile women, undergoing ART treatment between 2020 to 2022. Participants answered an online questionnaire shared on blogs and social networks related to infertility. The participants were evaluated through a set of self-response questionnaires on the experience of infertility, the assessment of the pandemic and its consequences for treatments, the evaluation of social support, and the coping strategies used to deal with infertility at this stage. It was identified that most women reveal a great desire to become pregnant and that it affects their life in general. Most women rated the closure of clinics and postponement of treatments negatively, and expressed predominantly negative emotions, despite equal high hope. This study contributed to a better understanding of the impact of COVID-19 and it’s consequences on the emotional adaptation of women and couples. Keywords: Infertility; COVID-19 Pandemic; Social Support; Stress; Emotional Adaptation
Date of Award2022
Original languagePortuguese
SupervisorMariana Costa Brandão de Moura Ramos (Supervisor)

Keywords

  • PSYCHOLOGY
  • CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
  • PANDEMICS
  • INFERTILITY
  • SOCIAL SUPPORT
  • EMOTIONAL ADJUSTMENT
  • TID:203453301

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