Assessment of Sexual Knowledge, Attitude, and Functioning Among Urology Clinic Patients in Imam Reza Hospital of Tehran

Abstract

Background: Sexual relationships are one of the most important and most obsolete aspects of human life since first, and there are many factors which affect sexual knowledge and attitude, and sexual functioning in men and women. Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the level of sexual knowledge, attitude, and functioning among urology patients. Methods: This was a cross-sectional descriptive study with stratified random sampling on 84 female and 60 male patients referring to the Urology clinic of Imam Reza hospital, Tehran, Iran. Data were collected using 6 tools including a researcher-made sexual knowledge questionnaire, Dehghani sexual attitude questionnaire, the international index of erectile function (IIEF), and the female sexual functioning index (FSFI), and analyzed by SPSS v.21 software. Results: The mean scores were 8 ± 1.3 out of 11 for sexual knowledge and 47.96 ± 6.48 out of 58 for sexual attitude. Only 8.3% of men had severe sexual dysfunction, but 79.8% of women had at least one kind of sexual dysfunctions, and pain disorder was the most prevalent one by 53.6%. We found no relationship between age, education, climacteric state, and age at the first sexual experience and any of the major study variables. Conclusions: Sexual knowledge and attitude, and men’s sexual functioning were at good levels in urology patients; however, sexual functioning in this field was remarkably lower in women than general population, and it also had a different pattern: pain disorder was the most prevalent sexual dysfunction.