Sexual Function and Urinary Incontinence in Women After Hysterectomy, Belém Study

A study of 162 women with active sexual life at a reference hospital in Belém, Pará, Brazil, evaluated sexual function and stress urinary incontinence following total hysterectomy with bilateral oophorectomy. The research, authored by Soany de Jesus Valente Cruz, compared 68 women who had undergone the surgery more than 12 months prior to 94 women who had not. It found a significant difference in sexual function scores and a 35.3% prevalence of incontinence symptoms in the surgical group.

Use Cases

• Predicting risk of sexual dysfunction based on surgical history and demographic data mentioned in the description
• Analyzing the association between hysterectomy and stress urinary incontinence prevalence reported as 35.3%
• Modeling scores across sexual function domains (desire, arousal, lubrication, orgasm, satisfaction, pain) that showed significant differences
• Comparing clinical outcomes between patient groups defined by surgical status over a 12-month threshold

Strengths

• Includes data from 162 participants, providing a basis for statistical analysis
• Reports specific Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI) overall scores of 23.56 and 28.68 for the compared groups
• Identifies a statistically significant association (p=0.02) between the surgical procedure and stress urinary incontinence

Limitations

• Row count for the underlying dataset is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Clinical study using the Female Sexual Function Index questionnaire and a researcher-developed questionnaire for social, economic, and clinical data.

Geography

Belém, Pará, Brazil