Quality of Life among Women with Primary and Secondary Infertility Attending a Private Fertility Center in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: A Cross - Sectional Study

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the fertility quality of life (QoL) among women with primary and secondary infertility and to assess the factors related with QoL in women with infertility. Material and Method: This cross-sectional analysis has been performed from December 2019 to June 2020. We measured the quality of life of 264 infertile women attending Healthplus Fertility Center in Jeddah city using the FertiQoL questionnaire tool, One hundred and eighty-five women with primary infertility and 106 women with secondary infertility were compared for Qol subscales and other confounding factors like age and education using multiple regression analysis. Results: Women with secondary infertility obtained better scores in emotional, mind/body, Relational and social domains of the core subscale and total QoL (p < 0.01). Primary and secondary infertile women who got married for more than five years and had more than five years duration of infertility had a significantly low scores in total FertiQoL and its subscales (p<0.001). Women with primary infertility who had support from their families or friends achieved significantly higher scores in emotional, mind and body, relation, and social subscales besides the total QoL (p<0.05). Multiple regression evaluation confirmed that Secondary infertility and social assistance had a positive effect on total QoL scores while age and years of marriage had a negative impact. Conclusion: Fertility Quality of Life scores were better for women with secondary infertility, while the scores were negatively affected by being older in ager and being married for more than five years.