Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development

To identify Infertile Women's Knowledge about adverse effect &to find out association between these infertile women's knowledge &sociodemographic characteristic, reproductive variables. The present study employs a descriptive comparative design held at the Um El Banin Center for Infertility & InVitro Fertilization Treatment at Al-Emamain Al-Kadhemain Medical City. Data collection was initiated was initiated on 2^nd January to end of March/2018. Purposive sample consisted of (100) infertile women. An assessment tool was constructed for the purpose of the study, it was comprised of socio-demographic data, information about women age at marriage, number of years of marriage, age at puberty (menopause), regularity of menstruation, suffering from dysmenorrhea. Previous medical history. The main results of the study show that participants’ knowledge about the adverse effects of IVF are of low-mean scores with low R.S. and their assessment is low in the pretest time. In the posttest time, all items of participants’ knowledge about the adverse effects of IVF are of high-mean scores with high R.S. There is a statistically significant difference in the scores of knowledge about adverse effects of IVF for women in the study group between the pretest time and posttest I (p-value =.000). On the other hand.