181 Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on infertility and endometriosis patients 8 Coping with altered care The results on stress and spread of information as reported by the infertility patients and endometriosis patients are presented in Figure 3. The results on stress (‘I experience an increase in stress due to the delay in my treatment’) differed between the patient groups: 76.6% of the infertility patients agreed with this statement against only 35.9% of the endometriosis patients (P < 0.001). A similar difference was seen in self-reported coping (‘I am able to cope with the changing health care system due to the COVID-19 pandemic’), where 30.3% and 51.9% of infertility and endometriosis patients, respectively, agreed (P < 0.001). In addition, of a subgroup of endometriosis patients who were currently undergoing fertility treatment (n = 23), 60.9% reported increased stress and 43.5% reported that they were able to cope (Supplementary Table 2). Figure 3. Experienced stress and communication. A total of 330 fertility patients and 181 endometriosis patients completed the stress and coping-related questions. Open-ended questions Both infertility patients and endometriosis patients reported that the use of telephone consultations and video consultations is seen as a feasible option when no physical examinations are needed. For infertility patients, acceptable appointments to use telephone consultations or video consultations for could be communicating laboratory results or solely providing information. Possible examples for the use of telephone consultations and video consultations with endometriosis patients were follow-
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