The Effectiveness of Stress Inoculation Training (SIT) on Resiliency and Life Expectancy in Infertile Women from Rasht

Abstract

The present research aims at studying the effects of SIT on resiliency and life expectancy in infertile women. This is a pilot study whereby using pretest-posttest control group design, all of the infertile women of age between 25-65 who were under treatment in Institute of Infertile Treatment (Mehr) of Rasht Town composed 65 participants of the research. From among them, thirty women have been chosen through simple randomizing and categorized into the control and experimental groups. The experimental group passed 9 sessions of SIT. For collecting data, the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) (2003) and Schneider's life expectancy questionnaire (1991) have been used, where their internal consistency has been reported 0.89 and 0.84, respectively. The obtained data were analyzed using analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). The results showed that there was a significant difference between the control group and experimental group, as the SIT had effects on resiliency and life expectancy in infertile women, causing an increase in the level of resiliency and life expectancy.