Table 4.

Spearman correlations between questionnaire findings and steroid measurements

	STAI score		BDI score
	r	P value	r	P value
NE T1 (ng/l)	0.37	0.01	0.01	0.89
NE T2 (ng/l)	0.10	0.12	0.08	0.18
NE T3 (ng/l)	0.22	0.02	0.14	0.24
NE T4 (ng/l)	0.01	0.56	−0.06	0.50
Cortisol T1 (nmol/l)	0.20	0.001	0.05	0.46
Cortisol T2 (nmol/l)	0.09	0.12	0.07	0.27
Cortisol T3 (nmol/l)	0.11	0.65	−0.09	0.34
Cortisol T4 (nmol/l)	0.19	0.04	0.10	0.12

BDI Beck Depression Index, NE norepinephrine, STAI State and Trait Anxiety Inventory, T1: before the start of treatment, T2: day of oocyte retrieval, T3: day of pregnancy detection, T4: 5–8 weeks of gestation for 92 pregnant women