Publication: Female sexual distress in infertile Turkish women İnfertil türk kadınlarda cinsel sıkıntı
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2015-12-01
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AYDIN, SERDAR
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AYDIN, SERDAR
KURT, Nihan
MANDEL, Selen
KAPLAN, Mustafa Arda
KARACA, Nilay
Dansuk, RAMAZAN
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Objective: To evaluate the effect of infertility on sexual distress in women attending the infertility clinic.
Materials and Methods: In a cross-sectional study we evaluated sexual distress among 88 women who attended the infertility clinic in our institute
between January and June 2015. All women who were experiencing primary or secondary infertility during the study sampling were included in the sudy.
Sexual distress was measured using the Female sexual distress scale-revised (FSDS-R), a cross-validated patient-reported outcomes measure. Correlations
of FSDS-R with patient characteristics and laboratory measurements were calculated using Spearman’s rank correlation tests.
Results: With the exceptions of the age of couples and serum anti-mullerian hormone (AMH) levels, no predictor of high sexual distress was found in
the univariate analysis when comparing groups with regard to the FSDS-R cut-off score. The mean age of the sexually distressed women (33.6±5.8 years
vs. 29.3±5.1 years) and their partners (35.4±4.8 years vs. 31.6±4.2 years) was significantly higher than those of the non distressed women, according to a
FSDS-R score over 11 (p<0.05). The serum level of AMH was significantly lower in infertile women with high total sexual distress scores (1.4 vs. 7.6 ng/
mL (p<0.001)).
Conclusion: In infertile women, age of woman, age of partner, and serum AMH levels are related with the hope of women to have a child despite an
association with sexual distress. Serum AMH, which is perceived as necessary for fertility, had a significant inverse correlation with levels of sexual stress.
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AYDIN S., KURT N., MANDEL S., KAPLAN M. A. , KARACA N., Dansuk R., -Female sexual distress in infertile Turkish women İnfertil türk kadınlarda cinsel sıkıntı-, Turk Jinekoloji ve Obstetrik Dernegi Dergisi, cilt.12, ss.205-210, 2015