Anxiety and conception rates in donor insemination

To test whether there is a relationship between anxiety levels and conception rates, 116 married women entering an artificial donor insemination treatment were pro-spectively studied with psychometric tests. All pregnancy groups (pregnancy in first, second, … seventh insemination cycle) were comparable in duration of infertility, age of the woman, female fertility status and the husband's infertile status.A statistically significant relation was found between initial trait anxiety level and the number of treatment cycles necessary for conception. Women having early spontaneous abortions were initially more stressed than the other pregnant women.