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Psychosocial aspects of infertility and its treatment by assisted reproduction
Komorová, Anna ; Šírová, Eva (referee)
This Rigorosum thesis focuses on psychosocial aspects of infertility and its treatment by assisted reproduction. The Rigorosum thesis modifies and extends the Diploma thesis "The impact of involuntary childlessness on partner relationship". The theoretical part deals with motivation for parenthood, the diagnosis of infertility and its treatment, psychosocial aspects of infertility treatment and the care of psychological needs of patients in centres of assisted reproduction; this part also analyses the experience of infertility and its social context, the influence of involuntary childlessness on relationship and coping strategies of partners, and it presents possible ways of psychological treatment for them. The empirical part consists of two parts. The first part focuses on women with experience of involuntary childlessness - their emotions, relationship and its possible changes; the role of social environment, their view on parenthood, their experience with infertility treatment and with seeking psychological intervention. The second part deals with nurses in centres of assisted reproduction and their view on the psychosocial aspects of infertility, on the difficulty of treatment with the methods of assisted reproduction and on the emotions of the patients during the treatment. Additional focus...
The Impact of Involuntary Childlessness on Partner relationship
Komorová, Anna ; Šulová, Lenka (advisor) ; Niederlová, Markéta (referee)
The topic of this thesis is involuntary childlessness and its impact on partner relationships. The theoretical part describes theories which try to explain, why people want to have children; here the knowledge about infertility, its therapy and other ways of solving this problem are summarized. The next part of the thesis deals with involuntary childlessness and its psychosocial aspects; special attention is paid to involuntary childlessness in connection to partner relationships. This part also summarizes the coping strategies of partners and presents the possible ways of psychological help for them. The empirical part was implemented by using the qualitative research, the semi-structured interviews and the method of Inclusion of Other in the Self scale. Total of 11 respondents took part, all women and each of them with experience in the area of involuntary childlessness. This part presents answers on the questions about the sense of parenthood for involuntarily childless women, their emotions and partner relationships. It surveys the areas of partner relationships, which were affected by the involuntary childlessness and describes what happens in relationship during this experience. It also shows the view of the individual respondents on the role of the social environment, on the life without...

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