Effect of cognitive behavioural and interpersonal therapies in achieving implantation in infertile depressed women in Greater Accra

Abstract

study's main goal was to determine if cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) could help infertile depressed women achieve significantly higher implantation. The study used a trueexperimental design. All infertile women on the register of 37 Military Hospital in Accra from September 2021 to November 2021 numbering 106, were included in the study. Using purposive sampling technique and random assignment approach, 45 of the said women were selected for the study with 15 being placed in each of CBT, IPT and control groups. The Beck's Depression Inventory II was utilised for baseline data as well as post-test scores, while a self-developed questionnaire was used for the implantation data. Each of the CBT and IPT groups was taken through 12 sessions of therapy after which all the women in the two groups as well as those in the control group went through In-Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) treatment. The two-way ANOVA, one-way ANOVA and logistic regression were employed to analyse the data. The findings conveyed that women who are experiencing infertility suffer from depression, and that CBT and IPT significantly helped them reduce their depressive levels. Also, infertile women who experienced CBT achieved significantly higher implantation than those who were taken through IPT. Finally, it was revealed that demographic variables do not predict the depression levels of infertile women. The Ministry of Health and the Ghana Health Service should ensure that counselling plays an important role in fertility treatments. Also, counsellors should be knowledgeable about CBT and IPT and be able to use them to treat depression in infertile women.