Korean J Women Health Nurs.  2019 Mar;25(1):60-72. 10.4069/kjwhn.2019.25.1.60.

Effects of Irrational Parenthood Cognition, Family Support, and Resilience on Depression of Infertile Women

• Cho EY
• Sung MH

• KMID: 2449871
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.4069/kjwhn.2019.25.1.60

Abstract

PURPOSE
To determine effects of irrational parenthood cognition, family support, and resilience on depression in infertile women.
METHODS
Subjects were 118 infertile women who agreed to participate in this study. Data were collected from April 16 to July 31, 2018. Collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, analysis of variance (ANOVA), Pearson's correlation and multiple regression with SPSS WIN 23.0 program.
RESULTS
Depression significantly differed according to the burden of treatment cost and presence of people giving stress. Depression showed significantly positive correlation with irrational parenthood cognition and significantly negative correlations with family support and resilience. Factors affecting depression were irrational parenthood cognition, family support, and resilience. Irrational parenthood cognition had the greatest effect on depression. These three variables explained 35.8% of total variance.
CONCLUSION
Irrational parenthood cognition, family support, and resilience affected depression of infertile women, with irrational parenthood cognition having the greatest effect. Therefore, it is important to develop and implement programs that can reduce irrational parenthood cognition and increase family support and resilience in order to lower depression of infertile women. The authors declared no conflict of interest.

Keyword

Infertility, female; Cognition; Social support; Resilience, psychological; Depression

MeSH Terms

Cognition*
Conflict of Interest
Depression*
Female
Health Care Costs
Humans
Infertility, Female
Resilience, Psychological

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