The relationship between infertility and sexual dysfunction: related factors

سال انتشار: 1396
نوع سند: مقاله کنفرانسی
زبان: انگلیسی
مشاهده: 359

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ISERB03_216

تاریخ نمایه سازی: 11 خرداد 1397

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Background: Infertility is a common problem and a complicated crisis for infertile couples resulting multiple psychological problems that can affect their sexual performance. The aim of this study was to investigate sexual function in men and women experiencing infertility.Methods: In a systematic survey of the databases such as PubMed, Elsevier, Ovid, Clinical key, SID, IranMedex and etc. from 2005 to the present, the relevant articles were extracted and analyzed.Result: The findings show that depression caused by infertility lead to sexual dysfunction in men. Couples with infertility suffer from more anxiety, depression and stress. Infertile women younger than 40 years’ experience more sexual dysfunction and often have depression at moderate level. Sexual dysfunction is higher in couples with greater age difference. Duration of infertility and economic status negatively correlated with sexual satisfaction. Also, the psychological and physical violence against infertile women is higher than healthy women.Conclusion: According to the results of these studies, infertility has numerous negative effects on sexual function and cause depression and loss of sexual satisfaction of couples. Moreover, the factors such as duration of infertility and the age difference of infertile couples are negatively correlated with sexual function. Therefore, counseling programs to improve sexual function in infertile couples performance could be recommended.

نویسندگان

Seyyed Meisam Ebrahimi

Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran

Reza Nejatbakhsh

Department of Anatomy, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran