Efficacy of Unified Trans-Diagnostic Treatment on the Infertility stress and Cognitive fusion in Infertile Women’s

Propose: The present study was conducted to investigate the efficacy of unified trans-diagnostic treatment on the infertility stress and Cognitive fusion in infertile women’s.

It was a quasi-experimental study with pretest-posttest and control group design. Two-month follow-up period was administered too. The statistical population included infertile women who referred to infertility clinic at Mother and Child Hospital and Samar infertility clinic in the city of Shiraz in the winter of 2021. 36 infertile women were selected through voluntary sampling method and randomly accommodated into experimental and control groups. The experimental group received ten sessions of unified trans-diagnostic treatment during two-and-a-half-months. The applied questionnaires in this study included Infertility stress Questionnaire (Newton, Sherrard, Glavac, 1999) and Cognitive fusion Questionnaire (Gillanders et al, 2010). The collected data were analyzed through mixed ANOVA via SPSS23 software.

The results showed that unified trans-diagnostic treatment has significant effect on the infertility stress (F=50.03; Eta=0.59; P<0001) and Cognitive fusion (F=91.36; Eta=0.72; P<0001) in infertile women’s.

According to the findings of the present study it can be concluded that unified trans-diagnostic treatment can be used as an efficient intervention to improve infertility stress and Cognitive fusion in infertile women’s through employing techniques such as identify emotions, emotional awareness, cognitive reassessment, and identify patterns of emotion avoidance.