Endometriosis Symptomatology, Dyspareunia, and Sexual Distress Are Related to Avoidance of Sex and Negative Impacts on the Sex Lives of Women with Endometriosis

Georgia Privitera, Kerry O’Brien, Rose Anne Misajon, Chung Ying Lin

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Background: Endometriosis affects approximately 10% of women and is associated with a range of symptoms including pelvic pain, abnormal bleeding, and painful sexual intercourse. However, very little is known about the relationship between endometriosis-related symptoms and sex. Methods: Women with a diagnosis of endometriosis (n = 2060; mean age = 30 years) completed a questionnaire measuring the frequency of endometriosis symptoms, dyspareunia, sexual distress, avoidance of sex, and the perceived negative impact of endometriosis symptoms on sex life. Results: In bivariate and multivariate logistic regression models with avoidance of sex and perceived negative impact of endometriosis symptoms on sex life as DVs, higher endometriosis symptom frequency, dyspareunia, and sexual distress were associated with greater avoidance of sex and higher perceived negative impact of endometriosis symptoms on sex life. With a two- and three-fold increase in the odds of avoiding sex and reporting a negative impact of endometriosis on sex lives, respectively, for each point increase in dyspareunia. Similarly, there was a 7% to 11% increase in avoidance of sex and the negative impact of endometriosis on sex lives, per one-point increase in symptom frequency and sexual distress. Conclusions: The results highlight the considerable impacts of endometriosis symptomatology on women’s sex lives and wellbeing. Better medical and counselling services may be needed to ameliorate the negative impact of endometriosis on women’s sex lives.

原文English
文章編號3362
期刊International journal of environmental research and public health
20
發行號4
DOIs
出版狀態Published - 2023 2月

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • 污染
  • 公共衛生、環境和職業健康
  • 健康、毒理學和誘變

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