The relationship between cognitive characteristics of irrational parenthood and stigma in female patients with infertility: a potential profile analysis.
Yan Zhang, Yonghui Ding, Guangli Mi and 4 others
PMID 40233207WHAT IT FOUND
Infertile women fell into four belief groups.
Women who saw childlessness as a lifelong torment or reason for inferiority reported more stigma, self-blame and family humiliation than women with lower beliefs.
Key findings
01Four latent profiles were selected, with 57, 61, 76, and 102 women.
02High and both middle irrational parenthood cognition profiles were positively associated with infertility stigma after controlling for confounders, explaining 44.2% of total variance.
03Assisted reproduction was associated with high and moderate expectation irrational parenthood cognition profiles.
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What it does not show
Because this was a cross-sectional survey, it cannot show that irrational parenthood beliefs cause stigma, or that changing beliefs will reduce stigma. The study was done in one hospital outpatient center in Yinchuan, China, so the profiles may not match patients elsewhere. All data were self-report questionnaires, not observed behaviour or clinician-rated stigma. Women with consciousness disorder, mental disease, or serious physical or chronic disease were excluded, so it says little about those groups. The Discussion recommends interventions, but no intervention was tested.
Declared interests
Funded by CNPq and Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region science and health programmes; no author competing interests are reported in the supplied text.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that correcting irrational parenthood beliefs will reduce stigma or improve fertility. This cross-sectional survey showed association only; no intervention was tested.