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Self-compassion training and psychological well-being of infertile female

BACKGROUND: The empowerment of psychological well-being is an important and fundamental issue among infertile females. OBJECTIVE: The present study investigates the effect of teaching self-compassion on the psychological well-being of initial infertile women. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this cross-sec...

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Autores principales: Alireza Afshani, Seyed, Abooei, Azade, Mohamad Abdoli, Ali
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Knowledge E 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6844287/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31807724
http://dx.doi.org/10.18502/ijrm.v17i10.5300
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Mohamad Abdoli, Ali
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description BACKGROUND: The empowerment of psychological well-being is an important and fundamental issue among infertile females. OBJECTIVE: The present study investigates the effect of teaching self-compassion on the psychological well-being of initial infertile women. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this cross-sectional, quasi-experimental study with pre-test and post-test, 32 infertile women who were referred to the Yazd Reproductive Sciences Institute during 2016-2017 were enrolled. The participants were randomly divided in two groups as control and experiment (n = 16/each). The participants only in the experimental group received 8 sessions of 90 min training (Self-Compassion Training). Ryff's psychological well-being questionnaire was applied (reliability coefficient = 0.82) and covariance analysis statistical test was used to test the research hypothesis. RESULTS: There was a significant difference between the estimated mean scores for improving the psychological well-being of the participants in the experiment and control groups (p = 0.007), and the difference indicates that 72.7% of the covariance of the post-test scores is due to self-compassion intervention. Therefore, the intervention of self-compassion training affects the improvement of psychological well-being among infertile women. Also, the pre-test variable is significant with the effect of 94.2% (p = 0.006). CONCLUSION: The findings showed that teaching self-compassion to initial infertile women has an effect on their psychological well-being.
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spelling pubmed-68442872019-12-05 Self-compassion training and psychological well-being of infertile female Alireza Afshani, Seyed Abooei, Azade Mohamad Abdoli, Ali Int J Reprod Biomed (Yazd) Short Communication BACKGROUND: The empowerment of psychological well-being is an important and fundamental issue among infertile females. OBJECTIVE: The present study investigates the effect of teaching self-compassion on the psychological well-being of initial infertile women. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this cross-sectional, quasi-experimental study with pre-test and post-test, 32 infertile women who were referred to the Yazd Reproductive Sciences Institute during 2016-2017 were enrolled. The participants were randomly divided in two groups as control and experiment (n = 16/each). The participants only in the experimental group received 8 sessions of 90 min training (Self-Compassion Training). Ryff's psychological well-being questionnaire was applied (reliability coefficient = 0.82) and covariance analysis statistical test was used to test the research hypothesis. RESULTS: There was a significant difference between the estimated mean scores for improving the psychological well-being of the participants in the experiment and control groups (p = 0.007), and the difference indicates that 72.7% of the covariance of the post-test scores is due to self-compassion intervention. Therefore, the intervention of self-compassion training affects the improvement of psychological well-being among infertile women. Also, the pre-test variable is significant with the effect of 94.2% (p = 0.006). CONCLUSION: The findings showed that teaching self-compassion to initial infertile women has an effect on their psychological well-being. Knowledge E 2019-11-07 /pmc/articles/PMC6844287/ /pubmed/31807724 http://dx.doi.org/10.18502/ijrm.v17i10.5300 Text en Copyright © 2019 Seyed Alireza Afshani et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6844287/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31807724
http://dx.doi.org/10.18502/ijrm.v17i10.5300
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