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Sexual Quality of Life in Gynecological Cancer Survivors in Iran

OBJECTIVE: Patients with gynecological cancer might suffer from suboptimal sexual quality of life. This cross sectional study aimed to assess the sexual quality of life in the survivors of gynecological cancers and was recruited in a teaching hospital affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Scien...

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Autores principales: Yarandi, Fariba, Montazeri, Ali, Shirali, Elham, Mohseni, Mona, Fakehi, Maliheh, Ghaemi, Marjan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8607075/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34319040
http://dx.doi.org/10.31557/APJCP.2021.22.7.2171
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author Yarandi, Fariba
Montazeri, Ali
Shirali, Elham
Mohseni, Mona
Fakehi, Maliheh
Ghaemi, Marjan
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Montazeri, Ali
Shirali, Elham
Mohseni, Mona
Fakehi, Maliheh
Ghaemi, Marjan
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description OBJECTIVE: Patients with gynecological cancer might suffer from suboptimal sexual quality of life. This cross sectional study aimed to assess the sexual quality of life in the survivors of gynecological cancers and was recruited in a teaching hospital affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences between 2018 and 2020. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The data was collected by a web-based platform with validated self-administered questionnaires including demographic information, and the Sexual Quality of Life-Female (SQOL-F) questionnaire. The data were analyzed using appropriate tests. RESULTS: Totally, 42% (106) of the participants had a sexual relationship in the last 6 months. The mean (SD) of sexual quality of life score was 46.84 (11.86) with the range of 0-90. The patients with cervical cancer had a worse sexual quality of life in Psychosexual Feelings (P=0.048) and Self-Worthlessness (p=0.036) compared with other gynecological cancers. Sexual quality of life did not improve or worsen over time. CONCLUSION: It is concluded poor sexual quality of life need further attention in the traditional societies and healthcare providers are urged to improve their sexual quality of life.
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spelling pubmed-86070752021-11-26 Sexual Quality of Life in Gynecological Cancer Survivors in Iran Yarandi, Fariba Montazeri, Ali Shirali, Elham Mohseni, Mona Fakehi, Maliheh Ghaemi, Marjan Asian Pac J Cancer Prev Research Article OBJECTIVE: Patients with gynecological cancer might suffer from suboptimal sexual quality of life. This cross sectional study aimed to assess the sexual quality of life in the survivors of gynecological cancers and was recruited in a teaching hospital affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences between 2018 and 2020. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The data was collected by a web-based platform with validated self-administered questionnaires including demographic information, and the Sexual Quality of Life-Female (SQOL-F) questionnaire. The data were analyzed using appropriate tests. RESULTS: Totally, 42% (106) of the participants had a sexual relationship in the last 6 months. The mean (SD) of sexual quality of life score was 46.84 (11.86) with the range of 0-90. The patients with cervical cancer had a worse sexual quality of life in Psychosexual Feelings (P=0.048) and Self-Worthlessness (p=0.036) compared with other gynecological cancers. Sexual quality of life did not improve or worsen over time. CONCLUSION: It is concluded poor sexual quality of life need further attention in the traditional societies and healthcare providers are urged to improve their sexual quality of life. West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention 2021-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8607075/ /pubmed/34319040 http://dx.doi.org/10.31557/APJCP.2021.22.7.2171 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) ) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Yarandi, Fariba
Montazeri, Ali
Shirali, Elham
Mohseni, Mona
Fakehi, Maliheh
Ghaemi, Marjan
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title_short Sexual Quality of Life in Gynecological Cancer Survivors in Iran
title_sort sexual quality of life in gynecological cancer survivors in iran
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8607075/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34319040
http://dx.doi.org/10.31557/APJCP.2021.22.7.2171
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