(P = 0.397) (Table 3). However, patients who had an academic education
obtained significantly lower scores than did those who had a nonacademic
education (P b 0.001). Score on the HADS-D questionnaire
varied by age, although the difference was not significant at the 0.05
level (P = 0.055). By contrast with HADS-A, the mean depression
score was greatest among patients who had experienced two infertility
treatment failures (Fig. 1, Table 3).
In themultiple linear regression analysis for HADS-D, patientswith a
high level of education obtained significantly lower HADS-D scores than
did those with a low level of education (P b 0.001), and patients with
two infertility treatment failures obtained significantly higher scores
than did those without a history of treatment on the HADS-D
(P=0.019) (Table 4).