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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychiatry
Sec. Public Mental Health
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1538279
This article is part of the Research TopicEnvironmental Risk Factors for Depression: Unveiling Pathways to Resilience and Public Mental Health EquityView all 19 articles
Dual mediating effects of marital satisfaction and family decision-making power on the relationship between self-disclosure and depressive symptoms in IVF-ET/ ICSI-ET patients: a cross-sectional study
Provisionally accepted- 1Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
- 2First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui Province, China
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Objective: Infertility has become one of the major public health problems, and assisted reproductive technology is the main treatment. Depressive symptoms are one of the most common mental illnesses treated with this technology. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of partner self-disclosure, marital satisfaction and family decision-making power on depressive symptoms in assisted reproductive therapy patients. Methods: A cross-sectional survey of self-disclosure, marital satisfaction, family decision-making power and depressive symptoms was performed in 1076 patients who underwent IVF/ICSI-ET treatment at the Reproductive Medicine Centre of
Keywords: Assisted reproductive services, self-disclosure, marital satisfaction, family decision-making power, Depression
Received: 02 Dec 2024; Accepted: 21 Mar 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Jia, Wang, Xu, Luo, Chen and Wang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Dan-ni Wang, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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