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The Impact of COVID−19 on Female Sexual Health

Introduction: Coronavirus disease (COVID−19), announced as a pandemic by the World Health Organization, recently has dominated people’s lifestyle. The impact of COVID−19 seems to be relevant to the sexual health as well. Methods: This prospective study was conducted on two occasions involving 764 fe...

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Autores principales: Fuchs, Anna, Matonóg, Aleksandra, Pilarska, Joanna, Sieradzka, Paulina, Szul, Mateusz, Czuba, Bartosz, Drosdzol-Cop, Agnieszka
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Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7579227/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33007804
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17197152
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author Fuchs, Anna
Matonóg, Aleksandra
Pilarska, Joanna
Sieradzka, Paulina
Szul, Mateusz
Czuba, Bartosz
Drosdzol-Cop, Agnieszka
author_facet Fuchs, Anna
Matonóg, Aleksandra
Pilarska, Joanna
Sieradzka, Paulina
Szul, Mateusz
Czuba, Bartosz
Drosdzol-Cop, Agnieszka
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description Introduction: Coronavirus disease (COVID−19), announced as a pandemic by the World Health Organization, recently has dominated people’s lifestyle. The impact of COVID−19 seems to be relevant to the sexual health as well. Methods: This prospective study was conducted on two occasions involving 764 female patients between March and April 2020—before and during the time of social quarantine. The sexual function was assessed using the Polish version of the Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI). Every patient filled out the survey concerning socio-demographic characteristics as well as the influence of SARS-CoV−2 pandemic on their lives. Results: The overall FSFI score before the pandemic was 30.1 ± 4.4 and changed to 25.8 ± 9.7 during it. Scores of every domain: desire, arousal, lubrication, orgasm, satisfaction and pain decreased as well (p < 0.001). There was statistically significant association between the workplace and the change of FSFI scores before and during COVID−19 pandemic (p < 0.01). We noticed the biggest decrease in FSFI score in the group of women who did not work at all (5.2 ± 9.9). Religion had a statistically important impact on level of anxiety (p < 0.01). Conclusion: The main finding of our study was the influence of COVID−19 pandemic on the quality of sexual lifestyle and frequency of intercourse among Polish women.
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spelling pubmed-75792272020-10-29 The Impact of COVID−19 on Female Sexual Health Fuchs, Anna Matonóg, Aleksandra Pilarska, Joanna Sieradzka, Paulina Szul, Mateusz Czuba, Bartosz Drosdzol-Cop, Agnieszka Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Introduction: Coronavirus disease (COVID−19), announced as a pandemic by the World Health Organization, recently has dominated people’s lifestyle. The impact of COVID−19 seems to be relevant to the sexual health as well. Methods: This prospective study was conducted on two occasions involving 764 female patients between March and April 2020—before and during the time of social quarantine. The sexual function was assessed using the Polish version of the Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI). Every patient filled out the survey concerning socio-demographic characteristics as well as the influence of SARS-CoV−2 pandemic on their lives. Results: The overall FSFI score before the pandemic was 30.1 ± 4.4 and changed to 25.8 ± 9.7 during it. Scores of every domain: desire, arousal, lubrication, orgasm, satisfaction and pain decreased as well (p < 0.001). There was statistically significant association between the workplace and the change of FSFI scores before and during COVID−19 pandemic (p < 0.01). We noticed the biggest decrease in FSFI score in the group of women who did not work at all (5.2 ± 9.9). Religion had a statistically important impact on level of anxiety (p < 0.01). Conclusion: The main finding of our study was the influence of COVID−19 pandemic on the quality of sexual lifestyle and frequency of intercourse among Polish women. MDPI 2020-09-30 2020-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7579227/ /pubmed/33007804 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17197152 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17197152
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