{"title":"Psychosexual empowerment strategies in infertile women: A systematic review.","authors":"Fatemeh Z Meamar, Shahnaz Kohan, Mahboube Taebi","doi":"10.4103/jehp.jehp_1831_23","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Infertility requires long-term treatment, and it is linked with a wide range of psychological consequences, having a negative effect on the sexual health of couples. This study aims to investigate psychosexual empowerment strategies through a systematic review of previous clinical trials. In this systematic review, national and international databases were investigated to find the relevant articles, including Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed, Science Direct, SID, Magiran, and IranMedex. The articles between 2003 and 2023 without any language restrictions were searched. The quality of the articles was evaluated using Jadad criteria. In addition, inclusion criteria included the intervention studies regarding mental and physical health enhancement, with a quality score of three or higher. Ultimately, 20 studies that met the inclusion criteria were selected for the systematic review of this study. The results indicated that educational and counseling interventions can improve psychosexual health in infertile women in five domains: \"sexual self-efficacy,\" \"sexual satisfaction,\" \"sexual intimacy,\" \"sexual self-esteem,\" and \"sexual anxiety.\" Psychological counseling and sexual education can be effective in psychosexual empowerment and improving the quality of life of infertile women. More systematic reviews are required to investigate the effect of sex-specific interventions to improve the psychosexual health of these women.</p>","PeriodicalId":15581,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Education and Health Promotion","volume":"14 ","pages":"191"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4000,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12200007/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Education and Health Promotion","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_1831_23","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2025/1/1 0:00:00","PubModel":"eCollection","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Infertility requires long-term treatment, and it is linked with a wide range of psychological consequences, having a negative effect on the sexual health of couples. This study aims to investigate psychosexual empowerment strategies through a systematic review of previous clinical trials. In this systematic review, national and international databases were investigated to find the relevant articles, including Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed, Science Direct, SID, Magiran, and IranMedex. The articles between 2003 and 2023 without any language restrictions were searched. The quality of the articles was evaluated using Jadad criteria. In addition, inclusion criteria included the intervention studies regarding mental and physical health enhancement, with a quality score of three or higher. Ultimately, 20 studies that met the inclusion criteria were selected for the systematic review of this study. The results indicated that educational and counseling interventions can improve psychosexual health in infertile women in five domains: "sexual self-efficacy," "sexual satisfaction," "sexual intimacy," "sexual self-esteem," and "sexual anxiety." Psychological counseling and sexual education can be effective in psychosexual empowerment and improving the quality of life of infertile women. More systematic reviews are required to investigate the effect of sex-specific interventions to improve the psychosexual health of these women.
不孕症需要长期治疗,它与一系列广泛的心理后果有关,对夫妇的性健康产生负面影响。本研究旨在通过对以往临床试验的系统回顾来探讨性心理赋权策略。在本系统综述中,我们调查了国内外的相关数据库,包括Web of Science、Scopus、PubMed、Science Direct、SID、Magiran和IranMedex。检索了2003年至2023年间没有任何语言限制的文章。采用Jadad标准评价文章的质量。此外,纳入标准包括有关心理和身体健康改善的干预研究,质量得分为3分或更高。最终,我们选择了20项符合纳入标准的研究进行本研究的系统评价。结果表明,教育和咨询干预可以在“性自我效能”、“性满足”、“性亲密”、“性自尊”和“性焦虑”五个方面改善不孕妇女的性心理健康。心理咨询和性教育可以有效地增强不育妇女的性心理能力,提高她们的生活质量。需要更多的系统评价来调查针对性别的干预措施对改善这些妇女的性心理健康的影响。