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To investigate the network structure connecting stress and stigma symptoms and examine how specific symptoms correlate with quality of life in female infertility patients.

November 26, 2024BMC Women s HealthOpen Access

Network analysis of stress and stigma symptoms and their associations with quality of life among Chinese female infertility patients

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FLFang LiuCentre for Addiction and Mental Health WHWenju HanDalian Maternal and Child Health Hospital WQWei QiaoGuilin Medical University

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Cross-sectional study reveals core stress and stigma networks in female infertility, indicating that stigma symptoms drive quality of life reductions.

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To investigate the network structure connecting stress and stigma symptoms and examine how specific symptoms correlate with quality of life in female infertility patients.
Recruited 428 female infertility patients via convenience sampling at a single medical center in China between November 2022 and December 2023.
Assessed stress, stigma, and quality of life using the Fertility Problem Inventory (FPI), Infertility Stigma Scale (ISS), and Fertility Quality of Life (FertiQoL) questionnaires.
Modeled symptom networks via expected influence, bridge expected influence, and flow network analysis, using bootstrapping to test robustness.
The network achieved an average node predictability of 0.67, with relationship concern exhibiting the highest centrality, followed by public stigma and social concern.
Self-devaluation, social concern, and relationship concern served as the primary bridge symptoms connecting the stress and stigma clusters.
Flow network analysis identified stigma dimensions, specifically social withdrawal and self-devaluation, as having the strongest negative associations with quality of life.

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Liu et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a868a8e519fe6d758cc6c8b https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905-024-03469-2

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Cross-sectional study reveals core stress and stigma networks in female infertility, indicating that stigma symptoms drive quality of life reductions.

Network analysis of stress and stigma symptoms and their associations with quality of life among Chinese female infertility patients

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Network analysis of stress and stigma symptoms and their associations with quality of life among Chinese female infertility patients

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