Erratum to “Couples’ experiences of pregnancy resulting from assisted reproductive technologies: A qualitative meta-synthesis”, international journal of nursing studies advances 4 (2022) article number: 100059

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Table 2.

Characteristics of the qualitative primary studies.

Author, year	Country	Journal	Goal of Study	Methods	Sample
Allan et al., 2019	England	Health	To explore the experiences of the transition to early parenthood among infertile heterosexual couples using donor-less IVF. Includes a specific review of men's experiences during this journey.	Unstructured interviews; thematic analysis	n = 16 infertile couples; First child, simple pregnancy; Time since birth: between 3 and 18 months
Canneaux, 2020	France	Neuropsychiatrie de l'enfance et de l'adolescence	To explore the possible peculiarities in the psychological changes in women and men before and during pregnancy, as a result of oocyte donation.	Interviews; content analysis and speech processes; psychodynamic perspective	n = 10 infertile women and 8 men met with separately, who had resorted to egg donation; Age of pregnancy: 7 to 8 months
Crespo & Bestard, 2016	Spain	Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online	To evaluate the experience of users of assisted reproductive technologies in Spain in a clinical setting, with a focus on their psychosocial needs after successful assisted reproductive treatment, thus contributing to Spain's knowledge of the growing number of writings on care in the context of assisted reproductive treatments.	Repeated semi-structured interviews; sampling by informed choice; content analysis	n = 30 pregnant women; n = 21 partners (20 men and 1 woman); Age of participants: between 29 and 47 years; ART technique used: IVF = 21 couples, Intra-uterine insemination = 2 couples, egg donation = 4 couples, sperm donation = 1 same-sex couple and 1 single woman, embryo donation = 1 couple
Dornelles et al., 2014	Brazil	Midwifery	To explore the fears of women during pregnancy after conception via assisted reproductive technologies and comparing these fears to those of women who conceived spontaneously.	Semi-structured interviews; content analysis	n = 19 pregnant women; First pregnancy; Age of pregnancy: 3rd trimester; Age of participants: 25 to 44 years; Source of infertility: women = 15, men = 2, both partners = 1, undetermined = 1; ART technique used: IVF = 15, artificial insemination = 3, gamete donation = 1
French et al., 2015	England	British Journal of General Practice	To explore the prenatal experiences of women and men who have successfully conceived thanks to infertility treatment.	In-depth interviews, thematic analysis by constant comparison	n = 12 pregnant women at 28 weeks and n = 8 male partners First child Age of participants 35 to 39 years Source of infertility: woman = 6 man = 7 woman and man = 2 undetermined = 5
HaCohen et al., 2018	Israel	Journal of Health Psychology	To examine the extent to which infertile women who have become pregnant integrate their past and current state/status into their conception of their identity.	Interviews; narrative interpretive approach; grounded theorization	n = 12 heterosexual married women; First child; Age of pregnancy: 2nd or 3rd trimester; Age of participants: 25 to 40 years; Source of infertility: woman = 8, undetermined = 4
Huang et al., 2019	Taiwan	Journal of Health, Population & Nutrition	To explore the experience of pregnancy and the transition to parenthood of first-time mothers after successful assisted reproductive treatment in Taiwan.	In-depth semi-structured interviews; sampling by informed choice; Colaizzi phenomenological analysis	n = 12 first-time mothers; Age of participants: 31 to 36 years; Age of child: 8 to 18 weeks
Lin et al., 2013	Taiwan	The Family Journal: Counseling and Therapy for Couples and Families	To describe the pregnancy experience of Taiwanese women who have undergone at least three cycles of assisted reproductive techniques over a period of more than 3 years.	In-depth interviews; phenomenological analysis	n = 15 infertile women; Age of participants: 31 to 44 years; Average duration of treatments: 5.25 years
Ranjbar et al., 2015	Iran	Journal of Pregnancy	To explore how women make sense of pregnancy resulting from assisted reproductive technologies in the Iranian culture and context.	In-depth interviews; sampling by informed choice; hermeneutical phenomenology	n = 12 infertile women 1st pregnancy; Simple pregnancy
Smorti & Smorti, 2012	Italy	Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences	To explore the psychological processes that develop in infertile couples who have experienced pregnancy through assisted reproductive treatments.	Semi-structured autobiographical interviews	n = 15 couples expecting a first child; Average age of women: 36 years; Average age of men: 38 years; Source of infertility: women = 40%, men = 36%, both partners = 4%, undetermined = 20%
Toscano & Montgomery, 2009	USA, Australia, England, Ireland, Canada, Colombia, Borneo	Health Care for Women International	To explore and describe the lived experiences of pregnancy (including preconception) resulting from IVF; and to identify common themes related to psychological, emotional, and physical health as described in electronic communities.	Electronic publications on the web; phenomenological analysis	n = 26 posts by women after childbirth
Turgeon et al., 2018	Canada	Devenir	To describe and understand the issues of the transition to fatherhood in the context of assisted reproductive technologies (ART).	Case study, longitudinal perspective (4 measurement times); semi-structured interviews; iterative analysis	n = 1 couple; First-time parents
Walker et al., 2017	England	Journal of Reproductive & Infant Psychology	To explore the qualitative experiences and decision-making processes surrounding physical activity (PA) for pregnant women who have undergone IVF treatment.	Semi-structured interviews; sampling by informed choice; interpretative phenomenological analysis	n = 8 women; Age of participants: 24 to 39 years
Warmelink et al., 2016	Netherlands	Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics & Gynecology	To explore the obstetric care needs of couples or women who have conceived thanks to a fertility treatment.	In-depth semi-structured interviews; content analysis; constant comparison/grounded theorization	n = 9 women; n = 2 men; Age of female participants: 32 to 38 years; Age of male participants: 32 to 35 years; Source of infertility: woman = 2, man = 4, both partners = 1, undetermined = 2

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