Anxiety, reproductive difficulties and assisted human reproduction techniques (AHRT)

The process of facing the diagnosis of reproductive difficulties, undergoing assisted reproduction treatments and being exposed to multiple attempts to achieve pregnancy can lay bare couples to long and sustained periods of stress and the risk of developing mental health problems. According to Gómez Roig (2021), anxiety is usually present in couples undergoing fertility treatments, with the percentage being higher in women (50%) than in men (33%). It is possible to conclude that, in this framework, it is undeniable that there is a relationship between anxiety and assisted reproduction treatments, therefore, an approach to the couple with reproductive difficulties, as a dyad, with psychotherapeutic support and counseling, could prevent the incidence of anxiety in this population, decrease the rate of abandonment of treatment and increase the success of these techniques.