Table 2.
Important findings and quality of included studies.
| Author/Year/Country | Important findings | Quality scores | Quality ratings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jiang et al./2022/China (18) | Patients with RIF in ART have low psychological resilience and poor QoL. The family income, the number of hospitals visited, and resilience were independent risk factors of QoL in patients with RIF | 4 | Moderate |
| Lian et al./2022/China (10) | FertiQoL is closely related to stigma and resilience in patients with RIF. The higher the level of stigma and the lower the level of resilience, the worse the FertiQoL | 5 | Moderate |
| Xie et al./2022/China (31) | The resilience of asthenospermia patients is positively correlated with the FertiQoL, and the resilience and the FertiQoL are in the middle level | 6 | Moderate |
| Zhou et al./2022/China (33) | The FertiQoL in infertile men is not optimistic. The more family income and stronger resilience were associated with better FertiQoL, while the worse semen quality, more serious alexithymia, and sexual stress, the worse the FertiQoL | 4 | Moderate |
| Mo/2021/China (5) | The level of resilience in infertile women is low, and their resilience has distinct grouping characteristics. Each subgroup has different sociodemographic and disease-related characteristics, such as education level, years of marriage, type of infertility, and fear or helplessness. Moreover, different resilience subgroups have different QoL | 8 | High |
| Zhou et al./2023/China (1) | The FertiQoL of infertile patients is low. During treatment, gender, residence, history of accepting ART, and resilience are related to FertiQoL | 4 | Moderate |
| Dong et al./2021/China (6) | Psychological resilience and social support have mediating effects on psychological stress and QoL of patients with PCOS | 6 | Moderate |
| Liu et al./2020/China (13) | The levels of resilience and QoL of female patients with RIF are lower than those of general infertility. There is a positive correlation between resilience and FertiQoL, and resilience is an influencing factor of FertiQoL | 6 | Moderate |
| Zhou et al./2020/China (14) | The resilience of infertility patients is positively correlated with the FertiQoL. The higher the level of resilience of infertility patients, the higher the FertiQoL | 6 | Moderate |
| Liu/2019/China (30) | Fertility-related stress, self-efficacy, and resilience are important influencing factors of QoL in female infertility patients. Fertility-related stress can directly predict QoL in female infertility patients. Fertility-related stress is a negative factor for QoL. At the same time, self-efficacy and resilience play a mediating role in the relationship between fertility-related stress and QoL in female infertility patients | 9 | High |
| Zhang/2019/China (4) | Resilience significantly affected the FertiQoL of infertile patients | 3 | Low |
| Zhou et al./2019/China (34) | The fertiQoL is lower in infertile women. There is a positive correlation between psychological resilience, positive emotion, and FertiQoL in infertile women. History of childbirth, causes of infertility, psychological resilience, and positive emotion are important influencing factors of fertility quality of life in infertile women | 6 | Moderate |
| Zhang/2017/China (35) | Resilience and posttraumatic growth could both positively predict QoL. Resilience was the mediator between posttraumatic growth and QoL | 8 | High |
| Wang/2022/China (25) | Husbands have higher QoL, resilience, and marital adjustment than wives. Wives’ resilience positively predict wives’ QoL. Wives’ resilience positively predict husbands’ QoL | 7 | Moderate |
| Bhamani et al./2022/Pakistan (23) | Among couples, resilience, and QoL were significantly low among wives compared with husbands | 8 | High |
| Vatanparast et al./2022/Iran (12) | Low resilience status in infertile couples is better to be considered as a risk factor compromising the QoL | 4 | Moderate |
| Bhamani et al./2020/Pakistan (26) | FertiQoL of men and women has a significant association with no formal education, number of friends, income, depression, and resilience | 3 | Low |
| Ha et al./2020/South Korea (8) | The resilience of an infertile actor affects both his/her own QoL and his/her partner’s QoL | 6 | Moderate |
| Li et al./2019/China (16) | Women with infertility in China had relatively low FertiQoL scores. Resilience influenced the association of infertility-related stress with FertiQoL | 8 | High |
| Herrmann et al./2011/Germany (27) | For infertile couples, resilience can be considered an unspecific protective factor against infertility-specific distress and impaired QoL | 9 | High |
| Royani et al./2019/Iran (29) | Resilience, gender, and education predict the QoL of infertile couples | 3 | Low |
RIF, repeated implantation failure; ART, assisted reproductive technology; QoL, quality of life; FertiQoL, fertility quality of life; PCOS, polycystic ovary syndrome.