30, December 2025

Infertility: A Sociological Study with Reference to Quality of Life of Victims of Infertility in Chennai City

VOLUME-11; ISSUE-12; DEC-2025

Author(s): Dr.S.T. Akilan

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Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Madras, Chepauk, Chennai-5, Tamil Nadu, India

DOIs:10.2015/IJIRMF/202512037     |     Paper ID: IJIRMF202512037


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The effects of infertility vary among societies and between men and woman. Understanding the Quality of Life of victims of infertility will help in developing many societies and overcoming the issues, which would benefit the couples. The study has made an attempt to analyse the problems faced by the victims of infertility. QOL related to health is a vital method to determine the outcome measurement of victims of infertility. Determining the physical, psychological, social, relational and other inappropriate effects of infertility would help in planning to improve the QOL. For the study purpose 100 respondents were chosen by using convenient sampling from selected fertility centres through inclusion and exclusion criteria for collecting data. The objectives of the study are to get the demographic profile of victims of infertility, assessing the QOL of people living with infertility, and analysing with reference to the four domains (physical, psychosocial, social relationship and environment). The study is descriptive in nature with both qualitative and quantitative. FertiQoL tool was used to assess the QOL of such victims. The study has reported one of the findings that respondents who perceive more social support have better QOL scores across emotional, instrumental and support from institutions. Further, the findings highlighted that women are the most affected group as evidenced by lower QOL scores. The FertiQoL includes mind and body (physical health), emotional health (psychological health status), social health (social and relational aspects), environmental aspects and tolerability to the treatment processes. The recommendations provided for this study are very much relevant for developing schemes and policy implementations.

Infertility, QOL, FertiQoL, Physical health, Psychology, Stress, Livelihood

Dr. S.T. Akilan (2025); Infertility: A Sociological study with Reference to Quality of Life of Victims of infertility in Chennai City , International Journal for Innovative Research in Multidisciplinary Field, ISSN(O): 2455-0620, Vol-11, Issue-12, Pp. 251-260.         Available on –   https://www.ijirmf.com/

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