Table 3 Reported internal consistency subscale ranges and overall totals

FertiQoL Internal Consistency: Subscales Only

Authors

Sample

Subscale and Ranges

Amiri, Brassard [51]

185 couples (N = 370) with infertility seeking ART services in Canada

Emotional, mind–body, and relational subscales range from F = .73-.86 and M = .69-.85

Andrei, Salvatori [52]

133 men and women with anatomical and non-anatomical infertility in Italy

Subscales range from .83—.86

Chan, Lau [36]

151 women with infertility who did not get pregnant following IVF in Hong Kong

Subscales range from .76—.93

Gameiro, Canavarro [53]

322 women, 111 men with infertility in Portugal

Relational subscale = .70

Tolerability subscale = .75

FertiQoL Internal Consistency: Totals and Subscales

Authors

Sample

Subscales

Treatment

Total FertiQoL

Cheng, Stevenson [54]

126 women seeking infertility treatment in Taiwan

Core Total = .91

Total =.81

.91

Cserepes, Bugán [55]

270 couples (N = 540) attending their first fertility consultation in Germany and Hungary

Total and subscales range from .63—.88

Domar, Gross [56]

166 women undergoing their first homologous IVF cycle at a Boston-based U.S. infertility clinic

Total and subscale ranges from .75—.93

Li, Long [57]

108 women attending a fertility clinic in China for their first IVF treatment

Subscales range from

.73—.92 (experimental)

and

.70 and .90 (Control)

Experimental = .94

Control = .93

Li, Luo [58]

253 women with infertility attending a fertility center in China

Subscales range from .74—.86

.91

Li, Jiang [59]

262 women with RPL in China

Subscales range from .78—.85

.81

Renzi, Di Trani [60]

93 childless women in Rome undergoing ART (IVF, IUI, or ICSI)

Total and subscale range from .70—.92

FertiQoL Internal Consistency: Overall Tool Total

Authors

Sample

FertiQoL Total

Kayabaşi and Yaman Sözbir [61]

120 women in Turkey with primary infertility pregnant through ART in 2^nd or 3^rd trimester

.94

Kim, Shin [62]

121 couples with infertility with one or more infertility treatments in South Korea

.93

Li, Zhang [63]

498 women with infertility in China undergoing IVF-ET

.93

Shin, Lee [64]

186 women with primary infertility receiving infertility treatment at least once in Korea

.93

Steuber and High [65]

301 women with infertility in the U.S

.93

Ataman, Aba [66]

797 women receiving infertility treatment in Turkey

.92

Kim, Hong [67]

169 women undergoing IVF in Korea

.92

Ni, Tong [68]

137 women with repeated implantation failure in China

.92

Çambel and Akköz Çevik [69]

125 women receiving infertility treatment in Turkey

.91

Donarelli, Salerno [70]

34 counseled and 34 matched non-counseled couples with primary infertility starting their first IUI, IVF, or ICSI in Italy measured before beginning the cycle (T1) and on day of ET (T2)

T1 = .91(F) & .90(M)

T2 = .92(F) & .89 (M)

Jing, Gu [71]

768 women with infertility undergoing IVF-ET in China

.91

Jing, Gu [72]

588 women with infertility undergoing IVF in China

.91

Maroufizadeh, Hosseini [73]

180 couples with infertility in Iran

.91

Kahyaoglu Sut and Balkanli Kaplan [31]

89 women with infertility in Turkey

.91

Haemmerli Keller, Alder [74]

109 women with infertility undergoing NC-IVF and cIVF in Switzerland

.89

Ha and Ban [75]

150 couples with infertility in South Korea

.88

Du and Dong [76]

168 couples with infertility (N = 336), no children, and more than one ART cycle in China

.86

Yousefzade, Rezaiee Ahvanuiee [77]

180 men and women with infertility in Iran

.86

Balsom and Gordon [78]

58 women with infertility between 12 and 48 months in the U.S. and Canada

.82

Pozza, Dèttore [79]

226 individuals undergoing homologous and heterologous ART in Italy

.81