A STUDY ON PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN FEMALE

在本项目之前的报告中，我们发现不孕妇女似乎变得更加抑郁和神经质，治疗持续时间越长。本年度，我们对107名不孕症妇女进行了半结构化访谈，重点探讨了治疗不孕症的困难。根据访谈，49.2%的妇女因自身医疗保险费用的增加而出现经济问题，57.8%的妇女时间紧迫，22.1%的妇女有家庭问题。在占总数90%的职业妇女中，10%的人已经辞职接受治疗；7%的人把工作换成了兼职。在接受体外受精和胚胎移植（IVF-ET）的妇女中，30%的人对自己的亲属保密，50%的人对丈夫的亲属保密。以四名40岁以上的中国女性为例，她们为了怀孕而嫁给了日本人，一些不孕女性似乎认为自己的生育年龄比实际年龄要高。很少有人同意参加自助小组的提议，以帮助他们通过接受不孕症的过程。这些发现表明，一些不孕妇女对治疗有不切实际的看法，以牺牲时间、经济和家庭关系为代价。在我们看来，这类妇女需要帮助来接受治疗的局限性，并制定除抚养孩子之外的生活计划。

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.