Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Διασυνδετική Ψυχιατρική και Απαρτιωμένη Φροντίδα Σωματικής και Ψυχικής ΥγείαςLibrary of the School of Health Sciences
Author:
Grigoriadou Georgia
Supervisors info:
Ρ. Γουρνέλλης, Αναπλ. Καθηγητής, Ιατρική, ΕΚΠΑ
Χρ. Χριστοδούλου, Αναπλ. Καθηγητής, Ιατρική, ΕΚΠΑ
Π. Φερεντίνος, Επίκ. Καθηγητής, Ιατρική, ΕΚΠΑ
Original Title:
Διερεύνηση του άγχους, της κατάθλιψης και της σεξουαλικής λειτουργίας σε γυναίκες με σακχαρώδη διαβήτη τύπου δύο
Translated title:
Anxiety, depression and sexual function in women with type 2 diabetes
Summary:
Type ΙΙ diabetes mellitus is a chronic, metabolic disease. Several studies have shown that women with type ΙΙ diabetes mellitus have a higher risk of developing anxiety, depression and sexual dysfunction than women in the general population.
The main purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between anxiety, depression and sexual function in woman with type ΙΙ diabetes mellitus, as well as to compare with the control group.
Overall, 88 pro-menstrual women, 44 with type two diabetes mellitus and 44 healthy women participated in the study. In this study the scales used were the Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI) and the Anxiety and depression scale (HADS).
The results of the study showed that women with type two diabetes have statistically significantly higher sexual dysfunction as well as more symptoms in all the areas of female sexual function compared to the healthy controls: desire, arousal, lubrication, orgasm, satisfaction, pain.
In addition, it was found that a higher score in sexual dysfunction correlate with higher score in depression within the group of the women with type two diabetes but not within the control group. In addition, while in the initial one way factor analysis it was found that women with type II diabetes mellitus had a higher depressive symptomatology that the women in the control group, after further investigation with multiple regression, this difference was due to the confounding effect of the sexual dysfunction, which was involved in the above relationship. Finally, the two groups of the participants were not found to differ in the anxiety variable.
The relationship between the type II diabetes and the sexual dysfunction in women, which is often overlooked, seems to require further investigation.
Main subject category:
Health Sciences
Keywords:
Diabetes mellitus type two, Women, Anxiety, Depression, Women sexual function
Number of references:
108
