Background: Quality of life (QoL) may represent a comprehensive indicator for the assessment of the psychological impact of complex clinical conditions, such as infertility and treatment failure. The present study has been done to investigate the effect of a repeated IVF failure on the quality of life and to discuss the influencing factors on their fertility QoL.
Methods: This was a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted on infertile women with repeated IVF failure. A general information questionnaire, FertiQoL scale, self-rating anxiety scale (SAS), and self-rating depression scale (SDS) were used to analyze the fertility QoL and related factors of repeated IVF failure patients.
Results: This study shows that there was statistically significant difference between the studied groups as regard environment scale and there was no significant difference between the studied groups as regard Emotional, Mind/body, Relational, Social, Tolerability and Total FertiQOL scales,
Conclusion: fertility-specific quality of life scores reveals better results regarding the orientation to the treatment environment in the females with a previous IVF failure, compared to first IVF cycle females. Treatment failure does not elevate the level of anxiety, while the effect on depression scores changes according to duration of infertility.