Women's Sex Life After Spinal Cord Injury

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11110%2F17%3A10364957" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11110/17:10364957 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14110/17:00098520 RIV/00216208:11130/17:10364957 RIV/65269705:_____/17:00067367 RIV/00159816:_____/17:00067367 and 2 more

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.esxm.2017.07.003" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.esxm.2017.07.003</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.esxm.2017.07.003" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.esxm.2017.07.003</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Women's Sex Life After Spinal Cord Injury

Original language description

Introduction: After spinal cord injury (SCI), individuals are typically considered by the general public to be asexual. Handicapped women have more problems with socio-sexual adaptation, stemming from low self-confidence, low self-esteem, and the absence of spontaneity. Aims: To determine changes in the sexual lives of women after SCI. Methods: A self-constructed questionnaire was used to map sexual function after SCI. We retrospectively compared sexual function in 30 women with SCI with that in 30 without SCI who led an active sexual life. Descriptive and inductive statistics were applied using the Student paired and non-paired t-tests and the Levene test. Main Outcome Measures: The main variables were presence vs absence of sexual dysfunction in a group of women after SCI and a comparison of the incidence of sexual dysfunctions in women after SCI with that of a control group. Results: A significant difference was ascertained in women with SCI in sexual desire (P &lt; .001), lubrication (P &lt; .001), and reaching orgasm before and after injury (P = .030). A comparison of the two groups showed a significant difference in the realization of coital sexual activity (P &lt; .001), erotogenous zones of the mouth (P = .016), nipples (P = .022), and genitals (P &lt; .001), and in the ability to reach orgasm (P = .033). The negative impact of incontinence on the sexual life of women with SCI proved significant (P &lt; .001). Negative factors for sexual activity in women with SCI were lower sensitivity in 16 (53%), spasms and mobility problems in 12 (40%), lower desire in 11 (36%), pain in 4 (13%), and a less accommodating partner in 3 (10%). Conclusion: Intercourse was the preferred sexual activity in women with SCI. Compared with the period before injury, there was significant lowering of sexual desire, impaired lubrication, and orgasmic ability after SCI. A comparison of the two groups showed a difference in erotogenous zones and in reaching orgasm.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30217 - Urology and nephrology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Sexual Medicine [online]

ISSN

2050-1161

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

5

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

5

Pages from-to

"e255"-"e259"

UT code for WoS article

000418450100005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85030477172