maryam maadi; Abbas Abolghasemi; mosa kafie; seyedeh Hajar Sharami
Abstract
Objective: Pelvic inflammatory disease is a common infection that can reduce family functioning by causing longterm complications such as chronic pelvic pain and infertility. This study aimed to comparefamily functions in Infertile women with and without pelvic inflammatory disease.Method: The research ...
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Objective: Pelvic inflammatory disease is a common infection that can reduce family functioning by causing longterm complications such as chronic pelvic pain and infertility. This study aimed to comparefamily functions in Infertile women with and without pelvic inflammatory disease.Method: The research method was causal-comparative, and the participants included 48 infertile women with pelvicinflammatory disease and 57 infertile women without pelvic inflammatory disease, referred to Al-Zahra Hospitalin Rasht in 2021. Based on the patients’ records and the diagnosis of the gynecologist, infertile women with pelvicinflammatory disease (tubular factor) and infertile women without pelvic inflammatory disease (due to other causes)were selected purposefully. A demographic checklist and McMaster Family Functioning Questionnaire were used tocollect data. Research data were analyzed using one-way and multivariate variance analysis.Results: The results showed that there was a significant difference between the mean scores of emotional fusion ininfertile women with pelvic inflammatory disease and infertile women without pelvic inflammatory disease (P <0.05). In addition, there was a significant difference in the two levels of high and low education in emotional controland response and interaction between group and education components (P < 0.05).Conclusion: According to the results of this study and the importance of the emotional integration component inwomen with infertility without pelvic inflammatory disease, this component can be used as a strength in these womenfor more effective communication in married life and to reduce the negative effects of infertility and education shouldbe further examined as a possible influential variable.
