Background: Infertility is a common medical problem among women, and in many traditional societies, women are usually considered to be responsible if married couples are unable to bear children. The objective of the present study was to investigate the problem of infertility among women seeking treatment at Rajshahi City in Bangladesh.
Methods: A total number of 500 infertile women were considered in the present study. Data were collected from Motherland Hospital and Infertility Centre at Rajshahi in Bangladesh during the period of February to August 2016. In this study, convenient sampling was used for selecting sample, t-test and z-proportion test were utilized in this study.
Results: In the current study revealed that more than 60% women had been suffering from the primary infertility. More than 68% infertile women were trying for getting baby for last 5 years. Most of the women (82.8%) did not attempt to get pregnant at specific period of their menstrual cycle. Many of them (79.6%) were not aware about the concept of fertile period. Larger percentage of the individuals was educated housewives. It was noted that husbands’ age was significantly larger than infertile women age (p<0.01).
Conclusion: Authorities should provide basic education on fertile period to educated housewives, and organize more general campaign on infertility for working mothers and those who were less educated.