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Abstract
Infertility is a global issue impacting individual and social wellbeing, the wide variance in incidence rates contributes to significant and unique psychosocial consequences as a result of where an individual experiences involuntary childlessness. Infertility can be defined as the inability of the couple to achieve conception or to bring a pregnancy to term after a year or more of regular, unprotected intercourse, or after 6 months if the woman is over 35 years of age.
In some traditional communities, the number and gender of children are important determinants of the position of woman in society. So, childless women are devalued group in the society, seen as unnatural and unfulfilled in failing to become mothers. These factors have forced childless women to use various non-medical practices to have a child. Traditional practices to treat infertility are more widely employed in developing countries, where health facilities and health education are still beyond the reach of the majority of the population. They can be classified into practices related to herbs, another woman or previously delivered woman, magic or zaar, rituals, using Quranic verses, women’s shock and remedies.
In many parts of Africa, infertile women tend to delay care and rely on traditional healers and traditional birth attendants first. This delay of seeking medical treatment together with the harmful practices may lead to deterioration of women’s condition. Therefore, the nurse must convince women to abandon traditional practices that are dangerous or harmful to their health. Health education that aims to modify harmful practices is most likely to be successful if it is based on knowledge of the people’s customs, beliefs and practices. So, this study aimed to identify traditional practices for treatment of infertility among rural women.
The study was conducted on a convenient sample of 200 women with primary or secondary infertility and who were previous or current users of at least one of traditional methods for treatment of infertility. They were selected from gynecologic out patient clinic and inpatient department affiliated to general Kafer El-Dawar Hospital.