TY  - JOUR
TI  - Sexual Function and Dyadic Adjustment in Infertile Women
AB  - Introduction: Infertility is a painful and emotionally stressful life crisis due to the processes performed in the infertilitytreatment process. Couples can cause problems in marriage relations, sexual dysfunctions and couple relationships by forcingstress coping skills and social support resources in this process. This study was conducted to evaluate the sexual functionstatus and the couple match level of women that have infertility problems. Method: 169 infertile women, who were appliedto the IVF center of an educational research hospital in Izmir, were accepted in the sample set of the study that is descriptiveand relational type Data were collected by the Golombock-Rust Inventory Sexual Satisfaction-Female Form (GRISS) and theDyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS) with face-to-face interviews of infertile women. Mann Whitney U, Kruskal Wallis test andcorrelation analysis were used in data analysis. Results: The mean age of women was 29,8 ± 3,0 years and the meanmarriage duration was 5,3±2,2 years. 54,4% of them were high school graduates, 57,4% of them were not working, 41,4% ofthem did not know the cause of infertility and 85,2% of them were primary infertile. The total DAS score of women was91,2±19,4 and the total GRISS score was 5,3±1,4. In the study, a negative significant correlation was found at medium levelbetween the total DAS score and GRISS score of infertile women participated in the study (r=-0,65, p=0,00). However asignificant correlation between the marriage duration of the women and the duration of requesting the children and GRISSand DAS total score was found, there was difference only between the total DAS score regarding the type of infertility and itscause. Conclusion: It was found in this study that women, who had infertility diagnosis, experienced sexual dysfunctionfewer as their couple adjustment increases. Health professionals at any stage of health service should evaluate the familyholistically not only the woman that effected by the infertility. They should make right overtures about revealing effect ofinfertility on couples and their sexual life.
AU  - EGELİOĞLU CETİŞLİ, Nuray
AU  - KABA, Ferda
DO  - 10.21763/tjfmpc.527975
PY  - 2019
JO  - Turkish Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
VL  - 13
IS  - 1
SN  - 1307-2048
SP  - 28
EP  - 33
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/340746
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