Supportive Care Needs and Medical Care Requests of Male Patients during Infertility Treatment

摘要

style="text-align:justify;"> style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:;" "="">Background: style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""> This study aimed style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""> style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "="">to clarify the supportive care needs and medical care requests of male patients during their infertility treatment style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""> style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "="">to be able to provide style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""> style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "="">them with optimal nursing style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""> style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "="">care. style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""> style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:;" "="">Methods: style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "="">A self-filled questionnaire survey was conducted in style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""> style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "="">411 male patients style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""> style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "="">who were style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""> style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "="">undergoing infertility treatment at 4 style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""> style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "="">human reproductive clinics. style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""> style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "="">The investigation period was from April to August 2016. style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""> style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "="">This research used across-sectional study design. The submission of the filled questionnaire was taken as an indication of agreement style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""> style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "="">and consent style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""> style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "="">to the research. style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""> style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "="">The main contents of the questionnaire were attributions, care needs, and medical care requests of male patients. style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""> style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "="">The care needs were evaluated by descriptive statistics, and style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""> style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "="">the free descriptions of the medical care requests were analyzed for their contents qualitatively and recursively. style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""> style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "="">The study style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""> style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "="">was performed after style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""> the style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""> approval of the Research Ethics Review Committee. style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""> style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:;" "="">Results: style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""> The number of valid responses was 331 style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""> style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "="">(80.5%). The care needs of the male patients style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""> style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "="">were warm care style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""> from style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""> their wives, provision of information style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""> style="font-size:10pt;fon