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COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Impact on the Quality of Women’s Sexual Life: A Systematic Review

The COVID-19 pandemic has had far-reaching effects, including onphysical and mental health and wellbeing. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on women’s health, especially on women’s sexual life includingdesire, arousal, orgasm and satisfaction. The initial r...

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Autores principales: Voutskidou, Anastasia, Kirkou, Giannoula, Dagla, Maria, Orovou, Eirini, Sarella, Angeliki, Palaska, Ermioni, Iliadou, Maria, Antoniou, Evangelia
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9858633/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36673553
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11020185
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author Voutskidou, Anastasia
Kirkou, Giannoula
Dagla, Maria
Orovou, Eirini
Sarella, Angeliki
Palaska, Ermioni
Iliadou, Maria
Antoniou, Evangelia
author_facet Voutskidou, Anastasia
Kirkou, Giannoula
Dagla, Maria
Orovou, Eirini
Sarella, Angeliki
Palaska, Ermioni
Iliadou, Maria
Antoniou, Evangelia
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description The COVID-19 pandemic has had far-reaching effects, including onphysical and mental health and wellbeing. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on women’s health, especially on women’s sexual life includingdesire, arousal, orgasm and satisfaction. The initial research in PubMed/Medline, Google Scholar and Scopus yielded 573 articles from Europe (Portugal, Poland, Italy, Greece), America (U.S, Brazil) and Africa (Egypt), of which 14 met the inclusion criteria and were included in the review. Results from the studies suggest that the pandemic negatively affected sexual functioning and satisfaction, while it increased sexual distress, sexual avoidance and solitary sexual approach behaviors. The desire to have children decreased during the pandemic, but so didthe use of contraception. There is conflicting evidence as to whether or not the pandemic has had an impact on sexual desire and frequency among women. However, some major factors associated with sexual life were psychological factors and working status. It is well documented that the pandemic has had a great psychological impact. Therefore, both of these factors are expected to significantly affect women’s sexual life.
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spelling pubmed-98586332023-01-21 COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Impact on the Quality of Women’s Sexual Life: A Systematic Review Voutskidou, Anastasia Kirkou, Giannoula Dagla, Maria Orovou, Eirini Sarella, Angeliki Palaska, Ermioni Iliadou, Maria Antoniou, Evangelia Healthcare (Basel) Systematic Review The COVID-19 pandemic has had far-reaching effects, including onphysical and mental health and wellbeing. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on women’s health, especially on women’s sexual life includingdesire, arousal, orgasm and satisfaction. The initial research in PubMed/Medline, Google Scholar and Scopus yielded 573 articles from Europe (Portugal, Poland, Italy, Greece), America (U.S, Brazil) and Africa (Egypt), of which 14 met the inclusion criteria and were included in the review. Results from the studies suggest that the pandemic negatively affected sexual functioning and satisfaction, while it increased sexual distress, sexual avoidance and solitary sexual approach behaviors. The desire to have children decreased during the pandemic, but so didthe use of contraception. There is conflicting evidence as to whether or not the pandemic has had an impact on sexual desire and frequency among women. However, some major factors associated with sexual life were psychological factors and working status. It is well documented that the pandemic has had a great psychological impact. Therefore, both of these factors are expected to significantly affect women’s sexual life. MDPI 2023-01-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9858633/ /pubmed/36673553 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11020185 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Palaska, Ermioni
Iliadou, Maria
Antoniou, Evangelia
COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Impact on the Quality of Women’s Sexual Life: A Systematic Review
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9858633/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11020185
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