An Explorative Study to Assess the Suicidal Risk Amongst Infertile Patients

Baidyanath Ghosh Dastidar

doi:10.1192/bjo.2022.193

An Explorative Study to Assess the Suicidal Risk Amongst Infertile Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 June 2022

Baidyanath Ghosh Dastidar

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Baidyanath Ghosh Dastidar*: Affiliation:
Calcutta National Medical College, Kolkata, India
*: *Presenting author.

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Aims

To assess the psychosocial impact of infertility amongst female infertile patients including suicidal risk/ suicidal ideation in the given study population.

Methods

A total of 300 women attending the Obstetrics and Gynecology out patients department of a tertiary hospital in Kolkata, India were selected by simple random sampling. 100 fertile women attending the routine ante natal clinic were selected as cases and 100 infertile women seeking fertility treatment were selected as controls. 100 women didn't follow up with the study. The following questionnaires were administered to both case and control group- BAI, BDI, SCL-90-R, SF-36, MINI and socio demographic proforma ; by trained clinic psychologist .

The raw scores & adjusted scores were analysed statistically by SPSS using the following tests, independent t test, chi square test and Z test.

Results

The results of the MINI scale indicate that up to 25% of the infertile cohort suffer from suicidal risk/ suicidal ideation which is statistically significant in comparison to the control group.

The other psychosocial parameters are also statistically significant in the case in comparison to the control population.

Conclusion

Although the psychosocial impact of infertility has been well researched and documented. Few studies have been conducted globally which assess suicidal risk amongst infertile patients.

Our results corroborate earlier studies such as the Danish administrative population-based registry study by Trille Kristina Kjaer et al which found a causative link between infertility and suicidal risk.

Further research is needed in this direction.

Type: Research
Information: BJPsych Open , Volume 8 , Supplement S1: Abstracts of the RCPsych International Congress 2022, 20–23 June , June 2022 , pp. S51

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