Journal of International Reproductive Health/Family Planning ›› 2011, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (4): 305-308.

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Mental Health of Offsprings After Assisted Reproductive Technology

SHEN Xiu-zhen, ZHU Yi-min   

  1. The Women’s Hospital, School of Medical, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310006, China
  • Received:1900-01-01 Revised:1900-01-01 Published:2011-07-15 Online:2011-07-15
  • Contact: ZHU Yi-min

Abstract: Assisted reproductive technologies(ART) have been developed more than thirty years, and there are more than four million babies born after ART in the world. Mental health of ART offsprings has been one of focus of fertility experts in recent years. The most findings indicated that mental health of ART offsprings is reassuring and parent-child relationship is good overall, although ART children could have more behavior problems compared to those spontaneously conceived(SC) during child and adolescent. The results of follow-up study on mental health of ART offsprings were not consistent. It is necessary to have the large examples, random, matched studies, especially more studies on the ART adulthood offspring. So, It is a long?-term and urgent task to study enduringly ART offsprings and follow-up.

Key words: Reproductive techniques, assisted, Parent-child relations, Psychophysiology, Psychophysio-logic disorders, Multiple birth offspring