Different Types of Mental Disorders in Egg Donors

Since the background mental disorders may be transmitted to siblings, infertile couples are usally worried about inheritance of bad mental situations form donors to the child. This study was performed to determine the different kinds of mental disorders in female egg donors.

In this descriptive and cross-sectional study, 100 Egg donors  were enrolled in hospitals in Tehran over the years 2017 and 2018 and different types of mental disorders in them were determined by SCL questionnaire.

In this study, 91 subjects were analyzed that among them 39% had mental disorders. The type of disorder was hypochondriasis, psychosis, hypomania, depression, OCD, anxiety, and personality disorder in 11%, 9%, 9%, 17%, 11%, 20%, and 23%, respectively. Psychological disorder and its type had no significant relationship with age and underlying diseases in people (P>0.05).

Based on the results of this study, psychological disorders are observed in more than one third of egg donors mainly, including depression, l personality and anxiety disorder.