The association between Type-D personality and in vitro fertilization success among women with unexplained infertility

• DOI: 10.12669/pjms.41.3.9966
• Publication Date: 2025-02-21T22:55:59Z
• Authors: Esra Nur Tola; Ümran Kılınçdemir...
• Keywords: Type D personality

Objective: To evalute the association between Type-D personality and in vitro fertilization (IVF) success unexplained infertile women. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study conducted at IVF unit of tertiary center September 2017 - December 2019. The 21 items Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-21) 14 Scale (DS14) were noted from 256 women undergoing an cycle. Results: Paternal educational level clinical pregnancy lower depression more prevalent Type-Ds than non-Type-Ds. There positive correlation BDI-21 scores duration infertility cycle count. Age, paternal level, anti-mullerian hormone metaphaseII number who failed to become pregnant achieved pregnancy. After adjustment factors affect success, negatively associated with personality, age low whereas it positively single embryo transfer. Conclusion: It seems that having may after treatment couples infertility. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.41.3.9966 How cite this: Tola EN, Turgut UK. among Pak J Med Sci. 2025;41(3):730-735. is Open Access article distributed under terms Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction any medium, provided original work properly cited.