How to Stay Women Undergoing Fertility Treatment in Treatment Places

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  • Kitai Kimie
    Tokyo Metropolitan University Faculty of Health Sciences, Graduate School of Human Health Sciences

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  • 不妊治療を受けている女性による「治療の場」に関する経験

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<p>Objective: To clearly identify how women undergoing fertility treatment stay in the treatment place.</p><p>Method: Qualitative and descriptive research design. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with the study participants: six women with either current or past experience of undergoing fertility treatment at clinics. From the interview data obtained, I created transcriptions, performed inductive analysis, and extracted core categories, categories, and sub-categories.</p><p>Results: The significance ascribed to women’s experiences in these fertility treatment places was organized into two core categories: 1. The threshold is gradually lower; the body is caught and cannot be separated. 2. Waiting while worrying about the surroundings.</p><p>Conclusion: Women undergoing fertility treatment experienced high thresholds at the beginning of the treatment, but it gradually became lower, and the body of women caught up in the treatment place. Furthermore, women had distinguished the experience of staying while caring for the surroundings, especially in waiting rooms.</p>

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