Correlation between Menopause and Changes in Women's Sexual Function at Lubuk Buaya Public Health Center
(1) Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Andalas University, Dr. M. Djamil Central General Hospital Padang, West Sumatera, Indonesia
(2) Division of Obstetrics and Social Gynecology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, RSUP Dr M. Djamil, Unversitas Andalas, Padang, Indonesia
(*) Corresponding Author
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25077/aoj.7.2.431-445.2023
Abstract
Background: Sexuality is a fundamental need, as is eating and sleeping. Post-menopausal women experience many psychological changes and have feelings about their negative reactions to menopausal transformations. Decreased sexual function is considered one of the important complications of this period that plays a negative effect on sexual function. This study aims to determine the relationship of menopause stage with sexual function of women in Lubuk Buaya Public Health Center (PHC).
Method: This research method is observational analytic with a cross-sectional method. This study was conducted starting in March 2021 until the number of samples was reached. The study was conducted in the working area of Lubuk Buaya PHC. The minimum number of samples studied in this study was determined 140 samples. The sampling technique is stratified random sampling. Univariate analysis of data in the form of tables and bivariate analysis using normality test using Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, if the data is normally distributed Anova test or Kruskal Wallis test. If the p-value <0.05 is significant.
Results: The average age of respondents was 48 years This study found the frequency of premenopausal stage found the most (43.6%), followed by postmenopausal stage (21.4%), perimenopause (17.9%), and menopause stage (17.1%). The domain of desire (2.7±1.0) and arousal (2.7±1.3) achieved the lowest score, indicating major sexual problems, while the domain of pain was the domain where women obtained the highest score (3.6±1.5) indicating minor sexual problems. In this study, it was found that the menopause stage affects five domains of sexual function changes in the FSFI, namely desire, arousal, lubrication, orgasm, and satisfaction, while in the pain domain, there was no significant relationship.
Conclusion: Menopausal status is significantly related to the domains of lust, lust, lubrication, orgasm, and satisfaction. There is a significant relationship between the stage of menopause with FSFI domain scores.Keywords
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