Developing the Scale for Assessing Psychosocial Problems Experienced by Women during their Infertility

The purpose of this study is to develop a measurement tool for retrospectively assessing the psychosocial problems experienced by women during their infertility. There were 204 women residing in Antalya, who participated in the study, had undergone infertility treatment and had been successfully treated, and in consequence of the infertility treatment they have at least one living child between 0 years-6 years old. Personal information form and the scale for assessing the problems experienced during infertility were applied through a face-to-face interview method. Cronbach's alpha value of the items in the scale was found to be 0.92. Adjusted Item-Total Score correlations of the items ranged between 0.32 and 0.72, and they are statistically significant p