Background: This study aimed to clarify the supportive care needs and medical\ncare requests of male patients during their infertility treatment to be able\nto provide them with optimal nursing care. Methods: A self-filled questionnaire\nsurvey was conducted in 411 male patients who were undergoing infertility\ntreatment at 4 human reproductive clinics. The investigation period was\nfrom April to August 2016. This research used across-sectional study design.\nThe submission of the filled questionnaire was taken as an indication of\nagreement and consent to the research. The main contents of the questionnaire\nwere attributions, care needs, and medical care requests of male patients.\nThe care needs were evaluated by descriptive statistics, and the free descriptions\nof the medical care requests were analyzed for their contents qualitatively\nand recursively. The study was performed after the approval of the Research\nEthics Review Committee. Results: The number of valid responses was\n331 (80.5%). The care needs of the male patients were warm care from their\nwives, provision of information on their treatment, daily life information for\nconceiving, and evaluation data. The 6 categories of the open-ended responses\nwere as follows: warm support, improvement of examination environment,\nadjustment of medical examination schedule, information provision, support\nfrom wife, and subsidy for treatment costs. These were extracted from the\nmedical care requests by qualitative inductive analysis. Conclusions: The care\nneeds and medical care requests of male patients undergoing infertility treatment\nwere mainly on being provided information and supporting their wives.\nAs supporting nursing care for these male patients, provision of sufficient in formation regarding the examination results and infertility treatment is recommended,\nand environmental considerations peculiar to male patients are\nnecessary. Consideration from female patients is also an indispensable factor\nsimilarly to the provision of care for male patients.
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