Sexuality and its effects on older adults’ depressive symptoms and quality of life

OBJECTIVES: to analyze the effects of sexuality on depressive symptoms and quality of life in older adults. METHODS: a cross-sectional and analytical study, developed with 596 older adults, who completed four instruments for data collection. Data were analyzed using the Kruskal-Wallis test and Struc...

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Autores principales: de Souza, Edison Vitório, Cruz, Diego Pires, Siqueira, Lais Reis, Pirôpo, Uanderson Silva, Rosa, Randson Souza, da Silva, Benedito Fernandes, Sawada, Namie Okino
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Associação Brasileira de Enfermagem 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9901350/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36753192
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0034-7167-2021-0645
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Sumario:OBJECTIVES: to analyze the effects of sexuality on depressive symptoms and quality of life in older adults. METHODS: a cross-sectional and analytical study, developed with 596 older adults, who completed four instruments for data collection. Data were analyzed using the Kruskal-Wallis test and Structural Equation Modeling, with a 95% Confidence Interval. RESULTS: among the sexuality dimensions, only physical and social adversities exerted statistically significant effects on depressive symptoms (SC=-0.095; p=0.003), but with low magnitude. Moreover, all sexuality dimensions had statistically significant effects on quality of life, being of low magnitude for sexual act (SC=0.171; p=0.010) and for physical and social adversities (SC=0.228; p<0.001), and moderate magnitude for affective relationships (SC=0.474; p<0.001). CONCLUSIONS: effects of different magnitudes were observed between sexuality dimensions on participants’ depressive symptoms and quality of life.

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