Mohammedamin Hajure

Abstract The World Health Organization identifies infertility as a major public health issue, affecting about 17.5% of people globally. Depression among infertile women has bidirectional physiological, social, and economic effects. However, limited data exists in Ethiopia, where infertility is often linked to social discrimination. Investigating this issue is especially important in low-income countries.

Introduction In places where conflict, war, violence, and natural disasters are frequently observed, displacement from these areas to the safe zone is expected (1). Worldwide, more than 40 million people have been displaced from their primary living areas (2).

This study was conducted in the Ilu Aba Bor Zone, which is located in the southwest of Ethiopia. A zonal town, Mettu is 600 km away from the capital, Addis Ababa. The zone has one town administration and fourteen rural districts, with a projected total population of 1,606,502. One referral hospital and one district hospital are found in the zone, serving the population of the zone. A pretest–posttest quasi-experimental study design consisting of an intervention and control group was used.