THE QUALITY OF LIFE AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO SOME VARIABLES AMONG FERTILE AND INFERTILE WOMEN

Abstract

This study aims to identify the quality of life of fertile and infertile married women as well as to reveal the differences between the level of their quality of life that attributed to these variables ( family economic level, age, the educational level). The study sample consisted of (382) women who were chosen by the convenience sampling method from the married women who periodically visit obstetrics and gynaecologyclinics and specialized medical centres in Amman Governorate during the period (1/6/2020 - 10/30/2020).The researcher used the quality-of-life questionnaire prepared by (FertiQol) Bofien et al, 2011) sponsored by the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology, and the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. The tool was translated into Arabic by the researcher after verifying its psychometric properties.Findings revealed a statistically significant difference between the average scores of fertile and infertile women in the areas of (satisfaction with quality of life, personal quality of life, therapeutic quality of life, and total score of quality of life) in favour of the fertile women. No statistically significant difference was seen between the average scores of fertile and infertile women in the area of (the quality of personal relationships), indicating that the fertile women have a higher quality of life than infertile ones. The results also indicated that there was no statistically significant difference in the sub-domains: (satisfaction with quality of life, quality of personal relationships, quality of therapeutic life, total degree of quality of life) among fertile and infertile women attributed to the variables (family economic level,  age, or education level).