OBJECTIVE: To explore the experience of @entity249 among @entity258 . DESIGN: Ethnographic qualitative interview study. SETTING: Academic research environment. @entity1 (S): One hundred eighteen Latinos who sought medical care for @entity249 . INTERVENTION(S): Tape-recorded interviews with 88 @entity1 and 30 @entity1 were transcribed and analyzed for emergent themes. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): Cultural beliefs regarding fertility and @entity249 , the value placed on having @entity1 , access to and use of health care resources, and non-biomedical approaches to having @entity1 . RESULT(S): Latino @entity1 and @entity1 believed that @entity1 were the basis of the marital relationship and that childless marriages were considered a failure. No couples had the economic resources to pursue medical treatment beyond a basic level. A difference was found in approaches to @entity249 treatment between @entity1 raised in the United States and those raised elsewhere, with those raised in the United States being more assertive in seeking care. @entity1 frequently saw practitioners of Western biomedicine and humoral medicine. @entity1 reported that they would continue trying to conceive until they reached menopause. CONCLUSION(S): @entity249 is a devastating experience for Latinos that has far-reaching effects, both on @entity1 and @entity1 individually and on the couple relationship.

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@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['women', 'children', 'Women', 'PATIENT', 'men'] @entity249 :: ('MESH:D007246', 'Disease') :: ['Infertility', 'infertility'] @entity258 :: ('MESH:D009800', 'Disease') :: ['low-income Latinos']
@entity249 :: (MESH:D007246,Disease) :: ['Infertility']
