Adaptação do Inventário de Problemas de Fertilidade para homens e mulheres inférteis / Adaptation of the fertility problem inventory to infertile men and women.

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

The period between the investigation of infertility and the assisted-fertilization procedure (FA) has been characterized as responsible for chronic stress. Additionally, infertility alters the marital relationship and causes social and sexual transformations, and the couple may come to present depression and anxiety. To asses the infertile couple, the Fertility Problem Inventory (FPI) was developed, which measure aspects related to social, sexual concerns, as well as those with relationships, rejection of life without children and the need to have a child. In Brazil , no instrument was found to evaluate infertile couples. The aim of this study was to adapt the FPI to the Portuguese language. For the adaptation, four judges were asked to analyze the translation and a consensus was reached in regards to the best terms to be used in the Portuguese language. The back translation was done by a professional translator, verifying that the FPI did not suffer alterations in the translation. The semantic analysis counted on the participation of 30 couples that had previously been successively submitted to FA procedures. Each participant was asked to indicate difficulties in the understanding of the inventory and 73.3% of the women and 66.7% of the men stated they would like to change some question, 55% would change the response rating and 58.3% would remove the negative from one question. From that moment, the FPI was called Inventário de Problemas de Fertilidade (IPF). The verification of the IPF validity counted on the participation of 122 men and 197 women that were in the first day of FA. They would answer the IPF, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), Beck-Depression Inventory (BDI) and the Ways of Coping Scale. In the factorial analysis, four factors referring to social (factor 1), marital and sexual (factor 2) relationships, life without children (factor 3) and maternity/paternity (factor 4) were obtained. Second-order factors that grouped the above-mention factors were also obtained. In the criterion validity, factor 1 correlated positively with the STAI-State and Trait, BDI, facing the problem focused on emotion and religiousness/fantasized thoughts. Factor 3 correlated positively with the STAI State and Trait, BDI and facing the problem focused on emotion. Factor 4 correlated positively with the STAI-Trait and religiousness/fantasized thoughts. To assess the stability of the IPF, 30 men and 30 women participated. The IPF was answered in the first medical consultation and replicated 30 days later. The Pearson correlation index varied between 0.86 and 0.78 in the four factorial scores. In regards to the internal consistency, the Lambda coefficient varied between 0.72 and 0.87. It was observed that the STAI-State, STAI-Trait, facing of the problem focused on emotion and religiousness/ fantasized thought were the variables most associated with the IPF factorial scores, and these data were confirmed in the linear regression, in the canonic correlation and the proposed interaction model. Therefore, it was verified that the IPF became an instrument independent of the original and presented adequate psychometric qualities to be applied in the population of infertile couples in Ribeirão Preto and the region. Thus, the IPF may become an objective means of evaluating infertile couples, both in screenings and future researches among this population.

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stress estresse infertility infertilidade avaliação psicológica. psychological evaluation.

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