Sexuality among Swedish Women around Forty — an Epidemiological Survey

Hagstad, Anita; Janson, Per Olof

doi:10.3109/01674828409017461

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“…Our search strategy identified 1,380 publications, of which 54 met our inclusion criteria [6,10,12,13,15,17–65]. Response rates of these studies ranged form 19% to 96%.…”

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Reviews: Modeling Response Rates in Surveys of Female Sexual Difficulty and Dysfunction

Hayes

Bennett

Dennerstein

et al. 2007

The Journal of Sexual Medicine

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Introduction Studies that address sensitive topics, such as female sexual difficulty and dysfunction, often achieve poor response rates that can bias results. Factors that affect response rates to studies in this area are not well characterized. Aim To model the response rate in studies investigating the prevalence of female sexual difficulty and dysfunction. Methods Databases were searched for English-language, prevalence studies using the search terms: sexual difficulties/dysfunction, woman/women/female, prevalence, and cross-sectional. Studies that did not report response rates or were clinic-based were excluded. A multiple linear regression model was constructed. Main Outcome Measures Published response rates. Results A total of 1,380 publications were identified, and 54 of these met our inclusion criteria. Our model explained 58% of the variance in response rates of studies investigating the prevalence of difficulty with desire, arousal, orgasm, or sexual pain (R2 = 0.581, P = 0.027). This model was based on study design variables, study year, location, and the reported prevalence of each type of sexual difficulty. More recent studies (β = −1.05, P = 0.037) and studies that only included women over 50 years of age (β = −31.11, P = 0.007) had lower response rates. The use of face-to-face interviews was associated with a higher response rate (β = 20.51, P = 0.036). Studies that did not include questions regarding desire difficulties achieved higher response rates than those that did include questions on desire difficulty (β = 23.70, P = 0.034). Conclusion Response rates in prevalence studies addressing female sexual difficulty and dysfunction are frequently low and have decreased by an average of just over 1% per anum since the late 60s. Participation may improve by conducting interviews in person. Studies that investigate a broad range of ages may be less representative of older women, due to a poorer response in older age groups. Lower response rates in studies that investigate desire difficulty suggest that sexual desire is a particularly sensitive topic.

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“…Our search strategy identified 1,380 publications, of which 54 met our inclusion criteria [6,10,12,13,15,17–65]. Response rates of these studies ranged form 19% to 96%.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reviews: Modeling Response Rates in Surveys of Female Sexual Difficulty and Dysfunction

Hayes

Bennett

Dennerstein

et al. 2007

The Journal of Sexual Medicine

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“…Assuming that sexual problems if occurring in the target population were noted by the attending physician their prevalence was remarkably low. In fact, decreased sexual desire was rare and dyspareunia appeared to be only slightly higher than that found in an epidemiological investigation of women 37 to 46 year old (11%) by Hagstad & Janson (1984). Experiences from a sexological department show, however, that 4% of their patients had dyspareunia, but as many as 43% were diagnosed as having inhibited (low) sexual desire (Nilsson 1985).…”

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Sexual Problems in Women with Urinary Incontinence

Berglund

Fugl-Meyer

1991

Scandinavian Caring Sciences

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The medical records of a consecutive series of 421 women diagnosed at a Department of Gynaecology as having urinary incontinence were surveyed (in retrospect) in order to analyse how frequently sexual complaints had been registered. After exclusion for age above 60 years and for concomitant chronic somatic or psychiatric disease, the charts of 193 women remained. Sexual problems had been registered in 28 (15%) of these. The complaints were dyspareunia, and in two cases decreased sexual desire. In this sample no significant associations between sexual complaints and type/treatment of incontinence, age or number of deliveries were found. As gauged by the available literature these patients have revealed--or have been noted to have--less sexual problems than somatically and psychiatrically healthy females have in the general population.

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Gynaecological and sexual function related to anatomical changes in the female pelvis after restorative proctocolectomy

et al. 1994

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Restorative proctocolectomy with an ileal pouch-anal anastomosis preserves anal sphincters, the normal route of defaecation and the normal body image and it has been suggested that the procedure might be associated with less gynaecological and sexual problems than conventional proctocolectomy. To shed further light on this subject 60 female patients were invited to participate in a study comprising a detailed interview, examination by a gynaecologist and investigation with hysterosalpingography and vaginography. Twenty-one women with a mean follow-up of 38 months after surgery agreed to participate. Their gynaecological state was considered normal although one woman complained of vaginal discharge. Five women experienced occasional dyspareunia and 2 patients had to take special precautions to avoid bowel leaks at intercourse. While the position of the vagina and uterus in the pelvis appeared normal, hysterosalpingography disclosed bilateral occlusion of the fallopian tubes in 2 and unilateral occlusion in another 9 patients with tubes adhering to the bottom of the lesser pelvis in 10 of the patients. Only one out of 14 patients succeeded in trying to conceive during the follow-up period. Among the remaining 39 women not specially studied 5 out of 14 had conceived after the operation.

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Sexuality among Swedish Women around Forty — an Epidemiological Survey

Cited by 12 publications

References 9 publications

Reviews: Modeling Response Rates in Surveys of Female Sexual Difficulty and Dysfunction

Reviews: Modeling Response Rates in Surveys of Female Sexual Difficulty and Dysfunction

Sexual Problems in Women with Urinary Incontinence

Gynaecological and sexual function related to anatomical changes in the female pelvis after restorative proctocolectomy

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