The relationship between self-compassion, mindfulness and mental health of infertile women

This study has been conducted to establish the relationship between self-compassion, mindfulness and mental health of infertile woman.The research planned as definitive and relational has been made between December 2019 and March 2020 at infertility clinic of Health Research and Aplication Center of Düzce University with 318 women diagnosed with infertility.The data has been collected by means of 'Personal Information Form' , 'Mindfulness Scale' , 'Self-Compassion Scale', and 'General Health Survey' using face to face interwiev method.The data has been transferred to IBM SPSS Statistics 23 program for statistical analysis, reliability analysis and Cronbach Alpha coefficient (Alpha Method) have been used.52.8 % of the women participating in the study is between 18 and 30 years old, 50.6% of those have been married for 1-5 years,38.7%of them are high school graduate. It's been observed that there is significant linear relationships between the total score of mindfulness and general perception of health, there has been a moderate negative (r=-0.414; p<0.001), and a low level of positive between the total score of self-compassion and the total score of general health perception (r=0.286; p<0.001). Between the general health perception total score and the self-compassion score (r=-0.350; p<0.001) moderately negative; between the general health perception score and mindfulness score (r=-0.242; p<0.001) low negative significant linear relationship have been found; and also there has been a moderately positive significant linear relationship between self-judgment (r=0.366; p<0.001), isolation (r=0.514; p<0.001) and over-identification (r=0.530; p<0.001) scores. As the self-compassion and mindfulness levels of infertile women increase, their mental health levels also increase. According to the results obtained from this study, it is recommended to plan experimental research with psychological support programs to improve the self-compassion and mindfulness skills of the infertile women.