Sexual Dysfunction in Infertile Women With PCOS Undergoing Fertility Treatment | ||
| Evidence Based Women's Health Journal | ||
| Article 3, Volume 13, Issue 1, February 2023, Pages 14-19 PDF (355.11 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ebwhj.2022.159554.1199 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Bassiony Dabian* ; Mostafa Abdelgalil; Mohamed Hamza | ||
| obstetrics & Gynecology , Faculty of Medicine , Cairo University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a syndrome of chronic anovulation, obesity, and androgen excess, and can affect sexual function in reproductive age women. Aim of the Work: To determine the prevalence of sexual dysfunction in women with primary infertility due to PCOS undergoing fertility treatment and predisposing factors. Patients and Methods: Observational cross-sectional study that included an Egyptian convenient sample of 186 females with primary infertility due to polycystic ovary syndrome , aging between 18-35 , recruited from Kasr Al-Ainy infertility Clinic. Results: Using a cutoff score of 26.55 on the FSFI-Q, the prevalence of female sexual dysfunction (FSD) was 30.1 % among the study subjects. The most affected domains were orgasm ( 45.7%) and satisfaction (53.8%) while the least affected in both groups was the desire domain ( 30.1 %). Those using Clomiphene citrate , gonadotrophin & IVF had more prevalence of sexual dysfunction( P value < 0.005). Females with bad feeling towards their husband & hairsute females had higher prevalence of female sexual dysfunction ( P value < 0.005). Conclusion: The present study demonstrated an association between the PCOS infertility and the prevalence female sexual dysfunction. The scope of the problem is basically due to low self-esteem , the bad perception body image of an obese hairsute female , the stress of delayed conception in addition to the superimposed bad relation with their husbands | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Infertility; PCOS; sexual dysfunction | ||
|
Statistics Article View: 234 PDF Download: 431 |
||
