Abstract

VALDES VAZQUEZ, María del Carmen; HERNANDEZ ESTERLIN, Yudit; GALVANY PEGUERO, María Mercedes  and  RODRIGUEZ PRIETO, Yisell María. Post menopausal woman. End of sexual life?. Rev haban cienc méd [online]. 2013, vol.12, n.2, pp.257-264. ISSN 1729-519X.

Introduction: climacteric and menopausal period has been historically, literally and culturally mentioned, and in other cases ignored and even underestimated by women and professionals. Objective: identifying changes in sexual response after menopause. Material and methods: a descriptive transversal cut study was performed on 223 postmenopausal women from Doctor's office 6 belonging to Federico Capdevila Polyclinic. Women were selected after revising their medical records in a period between September 2008 and February 2009. Inclusion criteria comprised informed consent, to live in the health area, and not to have cognitive or depressive disorders. A survey was done to a universe of 263 and only 223 constituted the sample. Results: postmenopausal women having sexual relations prevailed in the 65 to 69 year-old group; average age for menopause period was determined to be between 50 and 54 years old, and what changed the most in the sexual response was the desire phase, which is the main cause of the non satisfactory sexual practices. Conclusions: the results revealed that at this point women still want and have satisfactory sexual relations in which the communication with their partners and firmness of the relationship are vital to have a happy kinship in this final stage of life.

Keywords : postmenopausal women; sexual life; sexual answer.

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