A STUDY ON PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN FEMALE

在本项目的前一份报告中，我们发现，随着治疗时间的延长，不孕不育女性似乎变得更加抑郁和神经质。今年，我们对107名不孕不育妇女进行了半结构式访谈，结果显示，49.2%的不孕不育妇女存在与医保自费率提高有关的经济问题，57.8%的妇女时间紧迫，22.1%的妇女家庭负担沉重。在占总数90%的职业女性中，10%的人辞去了工作去接受治疗，7%的人转做了兼职。在接受体外受精-胚胎移植(IVF-ET)的妇女中，30%的人对自己的亲属保守治疗秘密，50%的人对丈夫的亲属保密。以四名40岁以上的中国女性为代表，她们嫁给日本人怀上了孩子，一些不孕女性似乎认为自己的生育年龄比实际年龄高。很少人同意参加自助小组，以帮助她们通过接受事实，不孕不育的过程。这些发现表明，一些不孕不育妇女对治疗抱有不切实际的看法，牺牲了时间、经济和家庭关系。在我们看来，这种类型的妇女需要帮助来接受治疗的限度，并制定生活计划，而不是养育孩子。

In the previous report of the present project, we revealed that infertile women appeared to become more depressive and neurotic, the longer treatment persisted. In the current year, we have examined a group of 107 infertile women with semistructured interviews focusing on the difficulty in treatment for infertility.According to the interview, 49.2% of the women had economical problems related to the increase in the rate of their own expenses for health insurance, 57.8% were pressed for time, and 22.1% were burdened with family problems. Of the working women, who accounted for 90% of the whole, 10% had quitted their jobs for treatment ; 7% had changed their jobs to parttime ones. Of the women undergoing In Vitro Fertilization and Embryo Transfer (IVF-ET), 30% were keeping the treatment secret from their own relatives, and 50% from their husbands' relatives. As represented by four Chinese women aged over 40 who married Japanese to conceive a child, some infertile women appeared to believe their reproductive ages to be higher than they actually were. Few agreed to participate in self-help groups proposed in order to help them pass the process of accepting the fact, infertility.These findings suggest that some infertile women have unrealistic views toward treatment at the expense of time, economy, and family relationship. In our opinion, this type of women needs help to accept the limits of treatment, and to make life plans apart from child-rearing.