Received September 13, 2009
Accepted November 08, 2009

Objective: to correlate the trace and state anxiety and evaluate the state of anxiety in patients after embryo transfer in an in vitro fertilization cycle; secondary objectives: to study the frequency and respective correlations, characterizing the population in demographic aspects and variable related to infertility; to evaluate possible correla- tion between trace/state anxiety and pregnancy rate. Methods: we studied 100 women undergoing in vitro fertilization treatment in the Clínica Pró-Criar, Belo Horizonte / MG, between October of 2007 and March of 2008. To evaluate the variable of the trace and the state of anxiety, the instrument StaiState Trait Anxiety Inventory was used. Results: significant differences correlated to the anxiety state had not been found after embryo transfer with the demographic aspects and the variable related to the infertility, as well as correlation was not found between trace and state of anxiety and tax of pregnancy. The analysis of the inventory anxiety state showed that 22.9% of the patients had presented high anxiety; 71.4% moderate anxiety and 5.7% had presented low anxiety. With regard to the analysis of the inventory anxiety trace, 64.3% of the patients were considered very anxious; 20% of moderate anxiety and 15.7% of low anxiety. Conclusions: the regression between trace and state anxiety showed that both are correlated positively, being that the state of anxiety of the patient increases in result of the trace of natural anxiety of the same one, but we did not observe correlation between these parameters and the pregnancy rate.