Working IVF Patients' Quality of Life (WIQoL)

University Hospital Center (CHU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: In Vitro Fertilization (IVF); Infertility

Treatments: Other: Completion of questionnaires

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04966091

RECHMPL20_0426

Details and patient eligibility

About

Infertility affects approximately 1 in 6 couples and may require the use of Medically Assisted Reproduction techniques. In France, there were more than 60,000 in vitro fertilization (IVF) attempts in 2016. The burden of the IVF process is even more significant for working women, causing significant absenteeism due to medical appointments but also to the psychological discomfort caused by the management. Unfortunately, there are no studies that specifically address the quality of life of working women undergoing IVF.

The cohort project aims to measure quality of life using validated questionnaires (FertiQoL, STAI Anxiety Scale and BDI Depression Inventory) in active patients who are scheduled for a first IVF attempt. Quality of life will be measured before starting treatment and at embryo transfer and will be followed up at each embryo transfer for a maximum period of 18 months. The follow-up will end after the live birth of a child or at the end of the 18 months of follow-up.

The investigators will also evaluate, by means of a specific questionnaire, the satisfaction with the interactions between professional and private life (management and consequences of absenteeism at work, consequences on professional evolution, anxious repercussions in the professional and private domains) in the active women undergoing IVF treatment.

Enrollment: 200 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 42 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Professionally active women aged 18 to 42 years
• Beginning in vitro fertilization treatment at the Montpellier University Hospital

Exclusion criteria

• Women who have already had an IVF attempt in the process of egg donation or pre-implantation diagnosis
• History of psychotic or dissociative disorder
• Not fluent in French
• Not affiliated to a social security system
• Protected by law or under curators/guardianship
• No record of non-objection to participate in the study