Infertility is a life crisis affecting couples all around the world. Infertile couple all around the world experience a tremendous amount of emotional turmoil. The risk of depression, anxiety and stress is high for infertile patients. With the objective to assess the stress level among primary infertile women undergoing IVF treatment and to determine the association of stress level with sociodemographic variable. This study was conducted in the Assisted Reproductive Treatment centre of a tertiary care hospital. Nonprobability purposive sampling technique was adopted for selecting subjects for the study. Quantitative approach, nonexperimental descriptive research design was used for the study.  Newtons Fertility inventory, modified state anxiety score was used to assess the stress level. The study findings reveals that only 1.7% of the subjects had high level of stress related to treatment outcome. Majority of subjects 51.6% experience only mild level of stress, 30% subjects had almost negligible stress and 16.7% had moderate level of stress.

Keywords: primary infertility, stress.

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