Caution is warranted when discussing correlations between stress and reproductive outcomes

It is well known that infertility patients experience stress and distress (e.g., depression or anxiety symptomatology) as a result of an infertility diagnosis or infertility treatment. However, less is known about the stress levels from planned oocyte cryopreservation (OC), and comparative studies are limited. The article “Differences in perceived stress during ovarian stimulation between women with infertility or pursuing oocyte cryopreservation” is a secondary analysis of the pre- and post-treatment self-reported stress levels of 165 first-cycle in vitro fertilization (IVF) patients and 52 OC patients who part icipated in the Learning from Online Video Education (LOVE) randomized controlled trial (RCT) (1).
Source: Fertility and Sterility - Category: Reproduction Medicine Authors: Tags: Reflections Source Type: research