| Medical successes and couples' psychological problems in Assisted Reproduction Treatment: a Narrative Based Medicine approach. | |
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PMID: 22928539 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Abstract Objective: 1) To explore the psychological processes that develop in women and men during their first pregnancy obtained with assisted reproduction treatment; 2) to individuate the main plot that women and men use to recount their transition to parenthood. Methods: A face-to-face semi-structured autobiographical interview was administered. The interview was aimed to investigate the story of pregnancy. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analyzed in order to merge principal themes. Participants: 15 Italian couples waiting for the first child after a conception with assisted reproductive technologies. Results: Medically assisted pregnancy constitutes an extremely stressful, highly medicalised experience, that the couple, however, narrated according to a basic plot consisting in four phases: doubt, final sentence, victory, monitoring. Conclusions: Results suggest that physicians can benefit from knowing the phases that infertile couples experience during pregnancy because these can serve as a framework to use in monitoring their transition to parenthood and in planning psychological support and health interventions for them. |
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Andrea Smorti; Martina Smorti |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2012-8-29 |
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Title: The journal of maternal-fetal & neonatal medicine : the official journal of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine, the Federation of Asia and Oceania Perinatal Societies, the International Society of Perinatal Obstetricians Volume: - ISSN: 1476-4954 ISO Abbreviation: J. Matern. Fetal. Neonatal. Med. Publication Date: 2012 Aug |
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Created Date: 2012-8-29 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 101136916 Medline TA: J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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University of Florence, Department of Psychology, Via di san salvi 12 padiglione 26, Florence, 50135 Italy. |
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