INFERTILITY: A QUALITATIVE STUDY ON ITS PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECT

The study focused to explore whether infertility affects the life of a woman psychologically or not. In our cultural contexts it is considered a great deficiency in the lives of a couple. In our society, getting impregnated soon after the marriage is considered normative. Failing to produce offspring in a couple of years, starts building social pressure which stresses her psychologically. The research was conducted in Waulah and Dulmial village in Tehsil Choa Saidan Shah Chakwal. The study was conducted using interview guides as a qualitative tool from a sample of 64 infertile women having both primary and secondary infertility over a period of 3 weeks. The study concluded that these women not only bear the social consequences but also their mental health is badly affected. Inability to conceive marks a huge disaster for her upcoming life. The chief burden of reproductive inability lies with the woman who is victimized as the sole cause of deficiency.