[Diagnosis and treatment alternatives to sexual disorders in women with urinary incontinence].
BACKGROUND
One difficulty that a woman with urinary incontinence faces up is quality and control of her sexual life, the more it is complicated the more it affects her in different ways. These complications require, as well as medical treatment, evaluation and special psychological intervention to integrally recovery.


OBJECTIVE
To know frequency and origin of sexual disturbances in women with urinary incontinence.


METHODS
Demographical, confirmatory, descriptive, transversal, retrospective with non-experimental design study. Seventy patients, ranging from 21 to 59-years-old, with diagnosis of urinary incontinence were selected. Three groups were conformed: Group 1, patients with sexual dysfunction before the manifestation of urinary incontinence; Group 2, patients with sexual dysfunction due to urinary incontinence, and Group 3, patients with no sexual problems neither before nor after the urinary incontinence problem. Codified Clinical History Form on Female Sexuality was used to classify patients; diagnosis was performed with the DSM-IV-TR.


RESULTS
Forty-six percent of patients had sexual dysfunctions (mainly dysrythmia and orgasmic disorder), 37% showed sexual disorder associated with urinary incontinence (dyspaurenia and hypoactive sexual desire), and 17% had no sexual problems.


CONCLUSIONS
As proper appraisal will define intervention strategies, patients with medical sexual problems must be evaluated by a psychology to establish diagnose and for adequate approach.
Sánchez Bravo
Claudia
C
Departamento de Psicología, Instituto Nacional de Perinatología. clausanbra@yahoo.com
Rodríguez Colorado
Silvia Esther
SE
Carreño Meléndez
Jorge
J
Meza Rodríguez
Pilar
P
Zámano Segura
Hortensia
H
D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012735:Sexual Dysfunction, Physiological / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D014549:Urinary Incontinence / Q000150:complications*; D055815:Young Adult