The Psychiatric Problem of Male infertility Patients by Symptom Check List-90 (SCL-90).
- Author:
Ju Tae SEO
;
Kyung Hee KIM
- Publication Type:Original Article
- MeSH:
Affective Symptoms;
Anxiety;
Depression;
Female;
Humans;
Infertility;
Infertility, Male*;
Male;
Male*;
Specialization;
Spermatozoa
- From:Korean Journal of Fertility and Sterility
1998;25(3):349-353
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
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Abstract:
It has been well known that infertile women experience not only emotional disturbance but also stress. But there is no concern about male infertility patients. So phychiat.ic symptoms were studied with SCL-90 (Symptom Check List-90) in 30 infertile men who was operated testicular sperm extraction (TESE) in Samsung Cheil Hospital and in age matched 31 fertile men from Jan. 1998 to Aug. 1998. In 5 symptom dimensions (Obcessive-Compulsive, Interpersonal Sensitivity, Depression, Phobic anxiety, Psychoticisim) scores. The Infertile group scored significantly higher than the control group. The result revealed that infertile men also experienced substantially more psychiatric symptoms than fertile men. Considering this results, psychiatric evaluation and tender care by infertility specialist are necessary for infertile men during and after evaluation and treatment.
