Infertility and sexual dysfunctions

Starc, Andrej (author), Trampuš, Manca (author), Pavan-Jukić, Doroteja (author), Rotim, Cecilija (author), Jukić, Tomislav (author), Mivšek, Ana Polona (author)

This study aimed to investigate whether infertility and its treatment affect couple sexuality. A systematic literature review was performed, focusing on female and male sexual dysfunctions due to infertility. The method was descriptive, using a meta-synthesis of scientific research published between 2012 and 2017 in the English language. The search for suitable studies was carried out with the research databases Medline, CINAHL, PubMed and ScienceDirect using the following keywords: infertility, sexual dysfunctions, cou-ple. It can be concluded that infertility negatively affects the sexuality of an infertile couple, which is fur-ther proven by a high percentage of sexual dysfunctions (43%-90% among women and 48%-58% among men). Couples report less satisfaction with sexuality. Since lower satisfaction and dysfunctions are closely connected with infertility and its treatment, couples might benefit from sexual therapy and support during the process of infertility treatment. Further research should focus on the evaluation of different psycholog-ical interventions that would address sexuality in couples when diagnosed and treated for infertility.

• Language: English
• Keywords: infertility, sexuality, erectile dysfunction, sexual dysfunctions, psychological
• Typology: 1.02 - Review Article
• Organization: ZF - Faculty of Health Sciences
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2019
• Number of pages: Str. 508-515
• Numbering: Vol. 58, no. 3
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-115364
• UDC: 616.89-008.44:[616.697+618.177]
• ISSN on article: 0353-9466
• COBISS.SI-ID: 5795435
• Publication date in RUL: 24.04.2020

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Acta clinica Croatica
• Shortened title: Acta clin. Croat.
• Publisher: Klinička bolnica Sestre milosrdnice, Institut za kliničko-medicinska istraživanja
• ISSN: 0353-9466
• COBISS.SI-ID: 24114434

Licences

• License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Description: The most restrictive Creative Commons license. This only allows people to download and share the work for no commercial gain and for no other purposes.
• Licensing start date: 24.04.2020

Secondary language

• Language: Croatian
• Title: Neplodnost i seksualni poremećaji: sustavni pregled literature
• Keywords: neplodnost, seksualnost, erektilna disfunkcija, psihološka seksualna disfunkcija

Projects

• Funder: Other - Other funder or multiple funders
• Project number: Komisija RS za medicinsko etiko 120/12/14
• Name: Nacionalni projekt Prevalenčna epidemiološka raziskava: ženske spolne motnje v Sloveniji