Moukhah Somayeh, Ghorbani Behzad, Behboodi Moghadam Zahra, Zafardoust Simin, Haji Parvaneh Azadeh, Alinaghi Elham, Moukhah Rasoul
Department of Reproductive Health, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Nanobiotechnology Research Center, Avicenna Research Institute, ACECR, Tehran, Iran.
J Reprod Infertil. 2023 Jan-Mar;24(1):49-57. doi: 10.18502/jri.v24i1.11909.
Premature ovarian insufficiency (POI) occurs in women before the age of 40. Although the outcomes of POI in women include its adverse effects on general health, sexual-reproductive health, and finally reduced quality of life. One of the first adverse consequences is a threat to female identity of the patients. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the perception and experience of women with POI about female identity.
In this qualitative study, interviews were conducted with 15 women having POI. Data included participants' recorded voices that were analyzed using conventional content analysis.
After content analysis of the interviews with a focus on the perception and experience of women with POI about female identity, four categories emerged; they included the failure in realization of motherhood dream, the importance of menstruation, construction of female identity, and attempts to normalize the situation.
After analyzing the emerged categories obtained by interviewing with POI women, it seems that physicians need to pay special attention to the distortion of the female identity of these patients and educate the medical team about the importance of the effect of treatment on improving their emotional health.
卵巢早衰（POI）发生在40岁之前的女性中。尽管POI对女性的影响包括对整体健康、性生殖健康的不利影响，最终导致生活质量下降。最早出现的不良后果之一是对患者女性身份的威胁。本研究的目的是调查POI女性对女性身份的认知和体验。
在这项定性研究中，对15名患有POI的女性进行了访谈。数据包括参与者的录音，采用常规内容分析法进行分析。
在对访谈内容进行分析，重点关注POI女性对女性身份的认知和体验后，出现了四个类别；包括母性梦想实现的失败、月经的重要性、女性身份的构建以及使情况正常化的尝试。
在分析通过对POI女性访谈得出的类别后，似乎医生需要特别关注这些患者女性身份的扭曲，并教育医疗团队治疗对改善她们情绪健康的影响的重要性。
