What is it about?
Males experiences of infertility are often over looked and under served due to the female centric focus of fertility and infertility. This review collated the research recently conducted in this area to explore how males experience infertility. The review aimed to capture the whole male experience to understand how males are impacted in all aspects of infertility.
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Why is it important?
This is the first systematic review to date that explores the experience of infertility from the male perspective, it compromises experiences from speculation, diagnosis, treatment and living with infertility. It adopts a meta ethnographic approach to understand how the whole infertility journey is experienced from a male perspective.
Perspectives
Giving males a voice is crucial in this area. It was a striking how males felt pushed to the margins in treatment and are crippling under societal pressures and expectations, having a huge impact on their emotional health and well-being. I hope that this review resonates with males who are going through this experience, it gives them hope to advocate for their own needs. I hope this is the first step in shifting the perspective and practice of services to incorporate both the female and male experience in infertility.
Leah Drewitt-Smith
Coventry University
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This page is a summary of: Men’s experiences of infertility: A metaethnographic systematic review., Psychology of Men & Masculinity, October 2023, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/men0000452.
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