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- Title
Sexual function and its association with sexuality and quality of life in older women.
- Authors
de Souza Júnior, Edison Vitório; Rosa, Randson Souza; Cruz, Diego Pires; da Silva Filho, Benedito Fernandes; Martins dos Santos, Brenaráise Freitas; Santos Silva, Cristiane dos; Siqueira, Lais Reis; Sawada, Namie Okino
- Abstract
Objective: to analyze the sexual function and its association with the sexuality and quality of life of elderly women. Methods: this is a cross-sectional web survey study developed with 166 elderly women. Four self-administered instruments were used to obtain biosociodemographic, sexual function, sexuality and quality of life data. The analysis was performed using the MannWhitney test, Spearman correlation and linear regression, considering a 95% confidence interval. Results: the greatest influence of sexual function was observed in the sexual act dimension of sexuality (β=0.524; [95%CI=0.451-0.597]; p<0.001; R2 =54.8%) and between the intimacy facet of quality of life (β =0.501; [95%CI=0.380-0.622]; p<0.001; R2 =29.0%). In general, the regression model showed that sexual function remained associated with sexuality (β=0.888; [CI95%=0.749-1.028]; p<0.001; R2 =49.1%) and the quality of life of the participants (β=0.352; [CI95%=0.264-0.439]; p<0.001; R2 =27.7%). Conclusion and implications for the practice: sexual function is associated with the sexuality and quality of life of older women, assuming a directly proportional behavior which, in turn, can become a strategy to add quality to the additional years of life of this population.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; CROSS-sectional method; SCALE analysis (Psychology); WOMEN; DATA analysis; AUTONOMY (Psychology); RESEARCH funding; HUMAN sexuality; SCIENTIFIC observation; ORGASM; SEXUAL excitement; MANN Whitney U Test; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; SURVEYS; QUALITY of life; STATISTICS; RESEARCH methodology; SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC factors; CONFIDENCE intervals; REGRESSION analysis; INTIMACY (Psychology); OLD age
- Publication
Anna Nery School Journal of Nursing / Escola Anna Nery Revista de Enfermagem, 2023, Vol 27, p1
- ISSN
1414-8145
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/2177-9465-EAN-2022-0227en