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Abstract
In December 2019, an outbreak of pneumonia with unknown origin began in China‘s Hubei Province, raising global health concerns due to the ease of transmission. To diagnose the highly infectious disease, suspected people were isolated and diagnostic/ therapeutic procedures were developed via patients‘ epidemiological and clinical data. After numerous studies, a novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was identified as the cause of the disease, and the disease was named (COVID19) by Chinese Scientists.
The COVID-19 pandemic is heavily influencing people‘s general well-being worldwide. Sexual health is an important aspect of general well-being, with important consequences on the population‘s daily lives.
Stressful lifestyle is a factor known to impact female sexual desire, frequency of sexual intercourse, quality of sexual life menstrual disorders and desire of pregnancy so the pandemic affect them.
Sexuality is an important part of women‘s life and one of the most important one‘s responsible for mental health. It has a huge impact on maintaining interpersonal communication and determines human well-being.
Aim:
The aim of this thesis was to determine possible role of COVID19 on female sexual behavior.
This study included 400 participants were selected according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria.
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Inclusion criteria: Sexually active female in childbearing period (21-45) Female patient recovered from COVID_19 infection
Exclusion criteria: Un married females, female who are sexually inactive, females with diagnosed psychological disorders,
females aged above 45 years old to avoid post-menopausal effects on sexuality, unmarried females, female having hormonal disturbance, common cold patient, allergic rhinitis, patient, Asthmatic patient and Patient with respiratory tract infection rather than COVID_19.
The calculated sample was collected by an online published questionnaire during the period from September 2021 to November 2021.
Results of the current study could be summarized as follows:
There was statistically significant difference regarding menstrual disturbances, vaginal infection and frequency of sexual intercourse among participants (P value <0.001) before and after COVID-19 infection.
there was statistically significant difference regarding times number of feeling sexual desire, level of sexual desire, times number of feeling sexually aroused, level of sexually aroused, confidence about becoming sexually aroused and satisfaction with arousal before and after COVID-19 infection (P value ≤ 0.05).
There was statistically significant difference regarding times number, difficulties of being lubricated and maintaining lubrication during and until completion of sexual activity (P value ≤ 0.05) before and after COVID-19 infection.
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There was statistically significant difference regarding times number and difficulty of reaching orgasm, satisfaction of overall sexual life and satisfaction of sexual relationship (P value ≤ 0.05) before and after COVID-19 infection.
There was statistically significant difference regarding times number and difficulty of reaching orgasm, satisfaction of overall sexual life and satisfaction of sexual relationship (P value ≤ 0.05) before and after COVID-19 infection.
There were no significant differences regarding times and level of feeling pain during and following vaginal penetration (P value >0.05) before and after COVID-19 infection.
There was significant decrease regarding desire, arousal, lubrication, orgasm and satisfaction with overall sexual life (P value ≤ 0.05), on the other hand, there was no significant difference regarding pain (P value >0.05) before and after COVID-19 infection.