Abstract
to assess the sexual function of pregnant women and the influence of sociodemographic, obstetric, and behavioral factors on sexual dysfunction. cross-sectional study conducted with 141 pregnant women attended by the Single Health System and 120 by one private service, totaling 261 participants. A questionnaire containing sociodemographic, obstetric, and behavioral variables was applied, as well as the Female Sexual Function Index instrument, which was used to assess sexual function. Associations between variables and sexual dysfunction were made using the chi-square test, considering a statistically significant result when p < 0.05. among the participants, 32.1% had sexual dysfunction, and the variables "age", "income" and "type of health service" had an influence on sexual dysfunction. The prevalence of pregnant women was between 21 and 30 years old (p < 0.001), with an income between 1 and 2 minimum wages (p = 0.048) and used the public health system network (p = 0.000). the factors associated with sexual dysfunction are "young pregnant women", "low income" and "attended in the public health service".
Highlights
Pregnancy is as a period of intense changes in a woman’s life
The study respected the guidelines and norms for researches involving human beings from Resolution No 466/2012, from the National Health Council of the Ministry of Health, to guarantee that the rights of the participants were respected; it was approved by the Ethics and Research Committee (ERC) of the Maternidade Escola Assis Chateaubriand (MEAC) from the Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
The sample consisted of 261 participants and, from them, 190 answered the FSFI instrument, since, as a prerequisite for answering the questionnaire, the pregnant woman should have had sexual intercourse in the last four weeks prior to the day of data collection
Summary
Pregnancy is as a period of intense changes in a woman’s life. They experience emotional changes, with the incorporation of the new role of mother, and systemic physiological changes, which can severely compromise their wellbeing(1). Among these changes, sexual function stands out, since it can affect the physical, emotional, personal, and social domains of a pregnant woman’s life. A sexual dysfunction is present when there is a difficulty in any of these phases(2). According to the World Health Organization (WHO), sexual dysfunction is any change in the human sexual response that produces physical and/or emotional suffering, individually or between partners(3)
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