ORIGINAL ARTICLE: MENTAL HEALTH, SEXUALITY, AND ETHICS

Health-related quality of life in pregnancy and postpartum among women with assisted conception in Canada Angela Vinturache, M.D., Ph.D.,a Nikki Stephenson, M.Sc.,a Sheila McDonald, Ph.D.,a Muci Wu, B.Sc.,a Hamideh Bayrampour, Ph.D.,a and Suzanne Tough, Ph.D.a,b a Department of Paediatrics and b Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Objective: To study the effects of mode of conception (spontaneous vs. assisted) on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) throughout pregnancy and in the postpartum period. Design: Secondary analysis of data from the All Our Babies cohort. Setting: Not applicable. Patient(s): A total of 243 women with assisted conception and 3,309 women with spontaneous conception. Intervention(s): Short Form 12 (SF-12) health survey administered by means of questionnaires at $60,000 (87.7% vs. 81.2%; P¼ .014) than women who conceived naturally. Obstetrical characteristics were also different between the two groups. Significantly more women from the AC group were primigravida (P¼ .016). Women in the AC group were more likely to be primiparous compared with the SC group (63% vs. 52%). Thirty-five participants had twin pregnancies (1.2%): 15 in the AC group (6.7%) and 20 in the SC group (0.7%). AC women were also more VOL. - NO. - / - 2015

likely to deliver preterm (P< .001) and by cesarean section (either planned or emergency; P< .001) than SC women. Women's scores on SF-12 domains subscales at

Health-related quality of life in pregnancy and postpartum among women with assisted conception in Canada.

To study the effects of mode of conception (spontaneous vs. assisted) on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) throughout pregnancy and in the postpa...
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