Abstract
There were great sexual challenges reported by the cervical cancer survivors' women. The assessment and management of sexual problems should become an important part of the standard care of cancer survivors' women. There over the purpose of study was to assess the severity of sexual dysfunction symptoms and determining the effect of the standardized oncology nursing care intervention on reducing sexual dysfunctions among cervical cancer survivors' women. Women's sexual dysfunctions are assessed using Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI). “Pre-posttest” questionnaires supplemented by structured interview questionnaire are administered to 50 women diagnosed with cervical cancer and treated by chemoradiotherapy in the Menoufiya University of the oncology institute of the Menoufiya Governorate-Arab Republic of Egypt. Results revealed significant decrease in sexual dysfunctions among cervical cancer survivors' women as measured by the FSFI checklist at posttesting (11. 5±0.3 versus 27±0.2). Results along with the interviews revealed that the effectiveness of standard oncology nursing care intervention on reducing sexual dysfunctions among cervical cancer survivors' women. The study recommended that the nurses should provide educational counseling on sexuality after women having cervical cancer.
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