Abstract

Infertility is a major health care problem. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of infertility and related factors in patients referred to infertility center in Besat hospital in Sanandaj, Iran in 2014-2015. This descriptive analytical cross-sectional study was conducted on all couples referred to infertility center in Besat hospital in Sanandaj, Iran in 2014-2015.The study population consisted of 579 patients. The questionnaire was used to collect data. Data were analyzed using STATA ver.11 software. Descriptive statistics, mean, standard deviation and Chi-square test, T-test and Fisher exact test were also used. T-test was used for quantitative variables and for qualitative variables Chi-square test and Fisher exact test were used. From 579 cases, 372 cases (64.3) had primary infertility and 207 cases (35.7) had secondary infertility. Most common cause of infertility in women was related to ovarian factors (33.5) and in men were male factors (30.2). Other causes of infertility were uterine factors (5.5), tubular factors (12.8) and unknown factors (18). There was no significant relationship between women age groups with male factors of infertility (p = 0.813) while there was a significant relationship statistically between women age groups with ovarian factors (p=0.001). The results of this study showed that the prevalence of primary and secondary infertility was 64.3 and 35.7 respectively also the most common cause of infertility in men were male factors and for women were ovarian, tubal and unknown factors which was almost the same as many previous studies. It seems that a survey with greater population is required to estimate the accurate rate of infertility in Kurdistan province.