Human instinctively desire to have offspring. Infertility can cause painful emotional experiences throughout the life mainly known as quality of life impairment. This study aimed to investigate the impact of infertility on a woman’s quality of life. A number of 180 infertile and 540 fertile women participated in this matched case-control study. The cases were selected through a combination of multistage stratified and cluster sampling methods. For each infertile woman three fertile women were randomly selected. The data gathering instrument consisted of demographic variables and the WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire. Data collection was conducted through interview with participants. The multivariate marginal model and SPSS software 21 were used for data analyses with a significance level of 0.05. The results of the multivariate modeling show infertility can potentially affect various aspects of women’s quality of life such as physical health (p <  0.001), mental health (p <  0.001), social health (p <  0.001) and the total score of quality of life (p <  0.001) significantly. An infertile woman practice a relatively lower scores in QOL sub-scales of mental, physical and environmental health; while they experience a higher social health score than a fertile woman.

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不育对女性生活质量影响的调查：病例对照研究

人类本能地希望拥有后代。不育会在整个生命中引起痛苦的情感体验，主要被称为生活质量受损。这项研究旨在调查不育对女性生活质量的影响。这项匹配的病例对照研究包括180名不育和540名可育妇女。通过多阶段分层抽样和整群抽样的方法选择病例。对于每位不育妇女，随机选择三名可育妇女。数据收集工具包括人口统计学变量和WHOQOL-BREF调查表。通过与参与者的访谈进行数据收集。多元边际模型和SPSS软件21用于数据分析，显着性水平为0.05。多元模型的结果表明，不育症可能会影响女性生活质量的各个方面，例如身体健康（p <0.001），心理健康（p <0.001），社会健康（p <0.001）以及女性的总质量得分寿命（p <0.001）显着。一名不育妇女在心理，身体和环境健康的生活质量次级量表中得分相对较低；而她们的健康状况要比有生育能力的妇女高。