[Depression and infertility: evaluation of 681 infertile women using Beck depression inventory]

ABSTRACT

Introduction: infertility and depression are major problems of today's societies. Although depression is one of the most prevalent diseases in primary care practice, consult for receiving help is carried out much less than true prevalence of the disease. Therefore gathering information about prevalence and risk factors of depression is very valuable. Beck Depression Inventory [BDI] which is a screening tool for depression can be used in Iranian patients because of availability of a validated translation. The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence of depression in infertile subjects in an infertility center