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Impact of male infertility on men's self-esteem

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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Background: : Self-esteem is based on an individual's appraisal or estimation of his / her importance or value. Since infertility causes personal, familial, and social problems, it considered a devastating health problem. Infertile males experience considerable psychological stress, with low self esteem, isolation, loss of control, sexual inadequacy and depression.
Objective: To assess impact of male infertility on self-esteem and determine relationship between clinical, demographic characteristics and self-esteem of infertile males.
Patients and Methods: A non experimental (case-control) research design used to conduct this study. A purposive sample was used. The current study included 150 subjects, 100 was studied group & 50 was control group. Data collection tool consisted two parts:1-Demographic and clinical data sheet, 2- Modified form (Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES).
Results: The most of fertile and infertile age groups was from 28 to Conclusion: From the present study, we can conclude that infertile males were having low self-esteem than fertile males making them more liable to having personal as well as social problems.

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10.21608/ha.2019.11789.1041

Keywords

Demographic data, infertile couples, Male infertility, RSES, Self-esteem

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Emad

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Kamal

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Eldien

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Departments of Dermatology, Venereology and Andrology, Faculty of Medicine Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

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Nadia

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Abd El-Ghany

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Faculty of Nusring, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

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Saleh

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Abdulla

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Omar

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Faculty of Nusring, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

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AYA

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BADRAN

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YOUSEF

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DERMATOLOGY DEPARTEMENT ..ASSUIT UNIVERSITY

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aya_badran@yahoo.com

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ASSUIT

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0000-0001-5331-5792

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9

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2

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10803

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2019-06-01

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2019-04-11

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2019-06-01

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40

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47

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2090-6048

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2090-6056

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Human Andrology

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Impact of male infertility on men's self-esteem

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22 Jan 2023