Fig 1.
Diagram showing the flow of information through the different phases of the systematic review and meta-analysis.
Table 1.
Inclusion criteria for the selection of studies.
Table 2.
Study characteristics.
Table 3.
Information about ART treatment and infertility.
Table 4.
Summary of findings: Psychosocial interventions versus control.
Table 5.
State-STAI Means pre-treatment and post-intervention.
Fig 2.
Hedges´ g, confidence interval (CI), Z-Value, p-Value and forest plot for anxiety (created with CMA Software [39]).
Table 6.
BDI-II Means pre-treatment and post-intervention.
Fig 3.
Hedges´ g, confidence interval (CI), Z-Value, p-Value and forest plot for depression (created with CMA Software (Borenstein et al. 2015) [39]). * p value < .05.
Fig 4.
Hedges´s g, confidence interval (CI), Z-Value, p-Value and forest plot for pregnancy rates (created with CMA Software [39]).
Fig 5.
Funnel plot for pregnancy rates.
Including the ’Trim and Fill’-method (black diamond), looking for missing studies (created with CMA Software [39]).
Table 7.
Risk of bias in the measurement of anxiety, depression and pregnancy rates in studies on the effect of psychosocial interventions in infertile women following GRADE [35].