AIM: To develop and psychometrically test a brief self-report to assess the amount of @entity249 -related stress; to investigate how @entity249 -related stress was associated to socio-demographics, causes of @entity249 . BACKGROUND: Infertility exerts a stress effect on both personal and interpersonal areas. Due to the burden of multiple assessments in fertility clinics, there is the need for very brief and easy to administer measures of the stressful impact of @entity249 on the intrapersonal and interpersonal life domains. DESIGN: The study had a psychometric, cross-sectional design. METHOD: Between January - December 2013, a total of 597 Italian @entity249 @entity1 (58  6% @entity1 ), recruited at the time of @entity249 consultation, completed the Infertility-Related Stress Scale. A subsample of 200 @entity1 (50% @entity1 ) also completed self-reports of @entity148 and @entity308 . A subsample of 40 @entity1 completed again the Infertility-Related Stress Scale at a 4-week follow-up visit. RESULTS: Confirmatory factor analyses supported the proposed two-factor model of @entity249 stress affecting intrapersonal and interpersonal life domains. Both dimensions showed good reliability and were associated in expected ways with emotional distress. @entity1 with above-threshold levels of @entity148 and @entity308 showed higher @entity249 stress in both domains and particularly in the intrapersonal area. Infertility stress was significantly higher in @entity1 than in @entity1 in the intrapersonal domain. CONCLUSION: The Infertility-Related Stress Scale showed evidence of validity and reliability. This new, brief self-report can assist fertility clinic staff in identifying those @entity1 who need support to overcome the stressful impact of @entity249 on intrapersonal and interpersonal domains.

Screening for XXXX -related stress at the time of @entity249 consultation: psychometric properties of a brief measure.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['participants', 'women', 'Patients', 'patients', 'men'] @entity249 :: ('MESH:D007246', 'Disease') :: ['initial infertility', 'infertility', 'infertility and emotional distress', 'infertile'] @entity148 :: ('MESH:D001008', 'Disease') :: ['anxiety'] @entity308 :: ('MESH:D003866', 'Disease') :: ['depression']
@entity249 :: (MESH:D007246,Disease) :: ['infertility']
