Clinical psychology research on fertility treatment counseling and fertility treatment education

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K13145
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Clinical psychology
• Research Institution: Kyushu University
• Principal Investigator: MASUDA KENTARO 九州大学, 人間環境学研究院, 教授 (70389229)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 不妊治療 / カウンセリング / 心理教育 / 高度生殖医療

Outline of Final Research Achievements

As for the pregnancy marriageable age of the woman, medically the average age for first marriage of the woman rises every year, and the number also of married couples with sterility increases from 25 years old though it is 35 years old. It is 24% for the cause both the woman 40% of the cause of sterility, and man 25%. There are a lot of couples that there is psychological resistance in undertaking the fertility treatment. However, the counsellor for infertility has not established the methodology few. Then, the current state of the fertility treatment was done by an overseas investigation, and the method [nitsute] development of the counseling was tried. The method of the time setting, the content of the question, and the interview was developed, and the method was practiced in the infertile counsellor training association etc.Both special sexual knowledge of the reproductive medicine corresponding to patient needs and the skill of the counseling balances are necessary.

Free Research Field

臨床心理学