İnfertil kadınların seksuel fonksiyon farklılıklarının değerlendirilmesi

Abstract

Aim: This study aimed to investigate the frequency of sexual dysfunction among infertile women and evaluate the difference between the primary and secondary infertility groups in terms of menstrual pain, dyspareunia, smoking and night shift variables based on the Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI) score. 
 Material and Methods: Seventy women in the primary group and 29 women in the secondary group participated in this study. All participants were asked FSFI. The questionnaire containing the marriage duration, total FSF1 score, menstrual pain, dyspareunia, smoking and night shift variables and also the demographic characteristics of patients such as age, infertility time and BMI was given to the subjects. SPSS 23.0 program was used for data statistical analysis. Pearson's Chi-squared test was used to compare categorical variables. Independent student t-test analysis was performed on binary variables to compare continuous variables between the groups.
 Results: 19.2% of both groups had marriage duration of 1-3 years, 54.5% of them had marriage duration of 4-6 years and 26.3% of them had marriage duration of 7 years above. The mean age of the patients in the study was 34,58±4,25 years. The prevalence of sexual dysfunction among the women was 32.9 (n = 23 of 70) and 55.2% (n = 16 of 29) in primary infertile and secondary infertile women, respectively, but it did not show a statistically significant difference between the two groups.
 Conclusion: There was no significant difference between both groups in terms of menstrual pain, dyspareunia, smoking and night shift variables but the difference was statistically significant in terms of marriage duration. The mean FSFI domains were not also significantly different between the two groups. There was also no significant relationship between age, infertility time and Body mass index (BMI) of both groups and sexual dysfunction.