فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

Infertility requires long‑term care and treatments which would influence different aspects of healthincluding the mental health of infertile women. The present study was conducted to determinestrategies for psychological empowerment of infertile women. This systematic review was performedon previously conducted clinical trials. To achieve the intended studies, databases of Magiran,Scientific Information Database, Google Scholar, Scopus, PubMed, ProQuest, ScienceDirect, andWeb of Science and also Iranian Registry of Clinical Trials website were searched using “infertilityand infertile women” as the keywords. The inclusion criteria were being an interventional studyand assessing the psychological status of infertile women. Performed studies in Iran with no timelimitations were evaluated. Based on the Jadad criteria, studies with a score of 3 or more wereenrolled in the systematic review. After assessing the quality of the studies, 21 studies were enrolledin the review for final evaluation. Reviewing the conducted studies showed that educational andcounseling interventions could be effective in improving the aspects of psychological well‑being ofinfertile women. Existing evidence revealed that applying coping strategies is effective in improvingthe quality of life in infertile women, which consequently lead to the improvement of psychologicalempowerment of infertile women.