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## Background Infertile women are exposed more frequently to anxiety risk than are infertile men, thereby adversely affecting the procedures with which they are treated and the quality of their lives. Yet, this problem is often disregarded. This study accordingly determined the prevalence of anxiety symptoms among infertile women. ## Methods All Persian and English studies published from the early 2000s to May 2019 were searched in international (i.e., PubMed, the Cochrane Library, Web of Science, Scopus, Embase, and PsycINFO) and national (i.e., SID, Magiran) databases as well as through Google Scholar. After the titles and abstracts of the articles were reviewed, their quality was evaluated, and relevant works for examination were selected in consideration of established inclusion and exclusion criteria. The risk of biases of individual studies according to Newcastle - Ottawa Scale was assessed. The heterogeneity of the studies was assessed using the I^2^ statistic, and indicators of publication bias were ascertained using Egger’s test. Stata (version 14) was employed in analyzing the findings. ## Results Thirteen studies having a collective sample size of 5055 infertile women we

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Author

Kiani, Zahra; Simbar, Masoumeh; Hajian, Sepideh; Zayeri, Farid; Shahidi, Maryam; Saei Ghare Naz, Marzieh; Ghasemi, Vida

Publisher

Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.); London: BioMed Central, 2015-; Springer Science and Business Media LLC (ISSN 2054-7099)

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)