Co-morbid conditions of infertile couples a community based study
Journal Title: Journal of the Indian Medical Association - Year 2018, Vol 116, Issue 4
Abstract
Infertility is a public health problem affecting people worldwide from all the communities with various causes. In any society being a parent is as a normal assumption of adult life. The crisis of infertility makes the couple undergo a chain of emotional changes which can be harmful to them. There are several co-morbid condition associated with infertility. With increasing age systemic disease were becoming more coincidental, which in turn tend to exert negative effect on feudality and fertility in males and females. (1) To identify the co-morbid condition among infertile couple. (2) To give health education to them. A cross-sectional study was conducted in the rural and urban field practice area of tertiary care hospital. Complete enumeration of all houses were done to list all the eligible couple residing in the area and among them at risk of pregnancy were identified so as to find out couples with either primary or secondary infertility. After obtaining ethical clearance from the institutional ethical committee, the study was carried out. More than 50% of the study participant had one or the other associated medical and reproductive system diseases, among which major proportion were rural males (18%) and females (15%) followed by urban males (13%) and females (11%). The high proportion of respondents with co morbid condition may be probably due to unhealthy lifestyle, illiteracy and ignorance.
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Rekha Udgiri, Vidya Patil
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