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Abstract
Women’s sexual activity changes at various stages of life and is affected by numerous factors, one of them includes childbirth and maternity. After childbirth, numerous physical, psychological, and socio-cultural factors may affect both sexual activity of women and quality of their lives.
Our objective was to compare the sexual function of the female before and after childbirth.
The study was carried on 200 postpartum females, at outpatient clinic of Shebin El Kom Teaching Hospital.
All participants were subjected to:
History taking to determine age, age of marriage, residence (rural/urban), educational level (can read and write, secondary school or university degree),occupation, number of children, mode of labour, mode of lactation and contraception.
Arabic translated version of FSFI questionnaire.
Results of this study were divided into 2 parts concerning the demographic, sexual data and FSFI.
A. As regards the demographic data:
Age of females ranged from 20 to 56 years old with mean value of 31.17 ± 8.57 (mean±SD). mean age of marriage was 22.86 years, mean number of children 2.56, most of them from urban and education till University ,67% were working, regarding mode of delivery 61% had cesarean section,74.5% breast feeding and most of them had IUD.
B. As regards the FSFI:
o There were significantly lowered mean score values of all domains (except pain) of FSFI and overall scale score after labour than before in the studied women.
o There was significant positive correlation between lubrication score and age of marriage in the studied women.
o There were significant higher mean values of overall FSFI scale score after labour in women practice bottle feeding than in those practice breast feeding in the studied women. There were significant lower mean values of overall FSFI scale score after labour in use oral pills (p1=0.003) and injectable contraceptives (p3=0.002) than non-use of contraception. Also, there were significant lower mean values of overall FSFI scale score after labour in use oral pills than use of IUD (p5=<0.001) or mechanical contraception (p6<0.001). Similarly, there were significant lower mean values of overall FSFI scale score after labour in use injectable contraception than use of IUD (p7=<0.001) or mechanical contraception (p8<0.001).