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Responses to High Technology Infertility Treatment
Author(s) -
Olshansky Ellen Frances
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
image: the journal of nursing scholarship
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1547-5069
pISSN - 0743-5150
DOI - 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1988.tb00051.x
Subject(s) - infertility , grounded theory , fertility , meaning (existential) , psychology , chose , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , social psychology , gynecology , psychotherapist , medicine , qualitative research , demography , sociology , political science , pregnancy , social science , population , genetics , law , biology
A secondary analysis was conducted on data originally collected through grounded theory methodology to study individuals' and couples' experiences of infertility. The secondary analysis focused on seven infertile couples who chose high‐technology options in their pursuit of fertility. Six themes emerged: (a) drivenness, (b) difficulty “getting on with life,” (c) marital and sexual disruption, (d) uniqueness of responses related to personal meaning, (e) financial stresses, and (f) exacerbated cyclical pattern of hope and despair.