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Effect of mode of delivery on couples’ sexual relationship during the postpartum period

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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Background: Although, sexual function is important in married couples' relationship, little is known about the intersexual relationship especially after delivery.
Objective: This is a cross-sectional study which aimed to assess and compare the impact of mode of delivery on sexual function of married couples and explore their sexual relationship after delivery.
Patients and Methods: This is a cross-sectional study which enrolled 400 couples during the postpartum period and were equally divided according to the mode of delivery into two groups: group I (200) included women who had a cesarean section and group II (200) had women who had vaginal delivery (VD) and their husbands. Each group was equally subdivided according to the number of deliveries (multiparous=100 and nulliparous=100).Sexual functions of men and women were assessed according to the female sexual function index and international index of erectile function15 questionnaires, respectively.  Results: Couples in the cesarean section group showed better sexual functions than in the VD group with a correlation between international index of erectile function and female sexual function index domains.
Conclusion: VD, episiotomy, and multipara negatively affect female and male sexual domains.

DOI

10.21608/ha.2020.24779.1056

Keywords

cesarean section, Episiotomy, Female Sexual Function Index, international index of erectile function, vaginal delivery

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sherine

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Abd Elrahman

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1st neighborhood, 3rd district villa 144

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sherine1771@gmail.com

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El Sherouk City

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0000-0002-2127-5535

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Ayman

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Zeid

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A.

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Department of Gynecology and Obstetric, El Mataryia Teaching Hospital, Cairo, Egypt.

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MonaEl

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Awady

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Community Medicine, Benha University, Benha, Cairo, Egypt.

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9

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4

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18126

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2019-12-01

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2020-03-11

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2019-12-01

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92

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98

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2090-6048

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2090-6056

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Human Andrology

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Effect of mode of delivery on couples’ sexual relationship during the postpartum period

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22 Jan 2023