Roundabout way to conception
Mindful visualized information enables sensitive elucidation of infertility.
Is nature-based imagery a key element for need-based and stress-reducing education in infertility treatment?
Involuntary childlessness is a challenging situation because existential fears and poorly prepared information material make it difficult to come to terms with one’s own infertility.
On the Internet as well as in the treating practices, educational materials are oftentimes not adapted to the content-related expectations and emotional needs of the patients. They are unsettling and raise more questions than they answer.
This not only affects the patients’ ability to acquire information, but also their interaction with the treating physicians. The project Desire for children in a roundabout way seeks solutions to this problem and explores how visual educational materials can reduce stress in order to make it easier for patients to take responsibility for collecting their own information as well as to receiving elucidation from their doctors.
