Fig. 1

Female scores of FertiQoL Total scale in different published studies. Values: female scores of FertiQoL Total scale. Data were published in recent papers with clinical samples (Boivin et al., 2011; Aarts et al., 2011; Karabulut et al., 2013; Heredia et al., 2013). Combined scores of 291 women and 75 men were reported in the sample of English speaking countries, scores of solely women were reported in Dutch, Turkish and Spanish samples, supplemented by the women’s mean scores of the three samples of our present study