Is affect associated with infertility treatment outcome?

Infertility is a unique diagnosis consisting of a functional medical aspect and a psychologic recognition on the past of the patient that not being able to have a child is a life goal problem. In previous unpublished research performed by the authors, it was noted that approximately one third of patients who were initially identified as part of a research study had left treatment before the study was completed. Similar statistics were previously noted by Strauss et al. (1) and Camilleri (2). The aim of this study was to observe the correlation between psychologic effect and patient treatment status over time, and to determine why so many patients failed to follow through with treatment recommendations.