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COVID-19 Confinement and Sexual Activity in Spain: A Cross-Sectional Study

Restrictions of free movement have been proven effective in tackling the spread of COVID-19 disease. However, sensitive populations submitted to longer periods of restrictions may experience detrimental effects in significant areas of their lifestyle, such as sexual activity. This study examines sex...

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Autores principales: López-Bueno, Rubén, López-Sánchez, Guillermo F., Gil-Salmerón, Alejandro, Grabovac, Igor, Tully, Mark A., Casaña, José, Smith, Lee
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7967360/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33806553
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18052559
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author López-Bueno, Rubén
López-Sánchez, Guillermo F.
Gil-Salmerón, Alejandro
Grabovac, Igor
Tully, Mark A.
Casaña, José
Smith, Lee
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López-Sánchez, Guillermo F.
Gil-Salmerón, Alejandro
Grabovac, Igor
Tully, Mark A.
Casaña, José
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description Restrictions of free movement have been proven effective in tackling the spread of COVID-19 disease. However, sensitive populations submitted to longer periods of restrictions may experience detrimental effects in significant areas of their lifestyle, such as sexual activity. This study examines sexual activity during the COVID-19 confinement in Spain. A survey distributed through an institutional social media profile served to collect data, whereas chi-squared tests, t-tests, analyses of variance, and multiple logistic regression analysis were used to assess differences among sample subgroups. A total of 71.3% adults (N = 536) (72.8% female) reported engaging in sexual activity with a weekly average of 2.39 times (SD = 1.80), with significant differences favoring males, middle age, married/in a domestic relationship (p < 0.001), employed (p < 0.005), medium–high annual household income, living outside the Iberian Peninsula, and smoking and alcohol consumption. Analyses adjusted for the complete set of control variables showed significant odds for a lower prevalence of weekly sexual activity in women (OR = 0.44, 95% CI 0.27–0.72). Interventions to promote sexual activity in confined Spanish adults may focus on groups with lower sexual activity.
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spelling pubmed-79673602021-03-18 COVID-19 Confinement and Sexual Activity in Spain: A Cross-Sectional Study López-Bueno, Rubén López-Sánchez, Guillermo F. Gil-Salmerón, Alejandro Grabovac, Igor Tully, Mark A. Casaña, José Smith, Lee Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Restrictions of free movement have been proven effective in tackling the spread of COVID-19 disease. However, sensitive populations submitted to longer periods of restrictions may experience detrimental effects in significant areas of their lifestyle, such as sexual activity. This study examines sexual activity during the COVID-19 confinement in Spain. A survey distributed through an institutional social media profile served to collect data, whereas chi-squared tests, t-tests, analyses of variance, and multiple logistic regression analysis were used to assess differences among sample subgroups. A total of 71.3% adults (N = 536) (72.8% female) reported engaging in sexual activity with a weekly average of 2.39 times (SD = 1.80), with significant differences favoring males, middle age, married/in a domestic relationship (p < 0.001), employed (p < 0.005), medium–high annual household income, living outside the Iberian Peninsula, and smoking and alcohol consumption. Analyses adjusted for the complete set of control variables showed significant odds for a lower prevalence of weekly sexual activity in women (OR = 0.44, 95% CI 0.27–0.72). Interventions to promote sexual activity in confined Spanish adults may focus on groups with lower sexual activity. MDPI 2021-03-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7967360/ /pubmed/33806553 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18052559 Text en © 2021 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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