Infertile Women’s Automatic Negative Thoughts and Coping Strategies: Qualitative Study
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2018
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University of Pardubice
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Aim: The study aimed to determine infertile women’s automatic negative thoughts and their
strategies for coping with them.
Method: This descriptive study used qualitative methods. The study was conducted on 15 women
who were referred to the infertility polyclinic of a university hospital and who had been diagnosed
with primary infertility. Data were collected via a socio-demographic information form and a semistructured
focus group interview (FGI) form and were analysed using the content analysis method.
Results: Three main themes were determined in the study: automatic negative thoughts, situations
triggering negative thoughts, and coping with those negative thoughts. The situations that triggered
negative thoughts were found to include social environments that reminded the women of babies,
news of a pregnancy, loneliness, and menstrual periods. The participants chose avoidance, crying,
and carrying out religious practices to cope with their negative thoughts.
Conclusion: The infertile women in the study often had automatic negative thoughts due to the
problems caused by infertility. Infertility consultant nurses should evaluate the negative thoughts
and depressive moods of infertile women. Cognitive, behavioral, individual, and group therapies are
recommended to solve the psychosocial problems caused by infertility.
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p. 35 - 42
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5th International Conference Quality and Its Perspectives
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5th International Conference Quality and Its Perspectives, with the subtitle: Multidisciplinary Approach to Patient Care (April 18, 2018)
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978-80-7560-149-0
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automatic negative thought, coping, infertility, woman