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What Does a Pregnancy Loss Mean for Sex? Comparing Sexual Well-Being Between Couples With and Without a Recent Loss.
Allsop, David B; Huberman, Jackie S; Cohen, Eva; Bagnell, K Brenna; Péloquin, Katherine; Cockwell, Heather; Rosen, Natalie O.
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  • Allsop DB; Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Dalhousie University, 1355 Oxford Street, P.O. Box 15000, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada.
  • Huberman JS; Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Dalhousie University, 1355 Oxford Street, P.O. Box 15000, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada.
  • Cohen E; Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Dalhousie University, 1355 Oxford Street, P.O. Box 15000, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada.
  • Bagnell KB; Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Dalhousie University, 1355 Oxford Street, P.O. Box 15000, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada.
  • Péloquin K; Département de Psychologie, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
  • Cockwell H; Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
  • Rosen NO; Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Dalhousie University, 1355 Oxford Street, P.O. Box 15000, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada. nrosen@dal.ca.
Arch Sex Behav ; 53(1): 423-438, 2024 01.
Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37814102
ABSTRACT
It is unclear whether sexual well-being, which is an important part of individual and relational health, may be at risk for declines after a pregnancy loss given the limits of prior work. Accordingly, in a cross-sectional study, we used structural equation modeling to (1) compare sexual well-being levels-satisfaction, desire, function, distress, and frequency-of both partners in couples who had experienced a pregnancy loss in the past four months (N = 103 couples) to their counterparts in a control sample of couples with no history of pregnancy loss (N = 120 couples), and (2) compare sexual well-being levels of each member of a couple to one another. We found that gestational individuals and their partners in the pregnancy loss sample were less sexually satisfied than their control counterparts but did not differ in sexual desire, problems with sexual function, nor sexual frequency. Surprisingly, we found that partners of gestational individuals had less sexual distress than their control counterparts. In the pregnancy loss sample, gestational individuals had lower levels of sexual desire post-loss than their partners but did not differ in sexual satisfaction, problems with sexual function, nor sexual distress. Our results provide evidence that a recent pregnancy loss is associated with lower sexual satisfaction and greater differences between partners in sexual desire, which may be useful information for clinicians working with couples post-loss. Practitioners can share these findings with couples who may find it reassuring that we did not find many aspects of sexual well-being to be related to pregnancy loss at about three months post-loss.
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Banco de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Conducta Sexual / Parejas Sexuales Tipo de estudio: Observational_studies / Prognostic_studies / Risk_factors_studies Límite: Female / Humans / Pregnancy Idioma: En Revista: Arch Sex Behav Año: 2024 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Canadá

Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Banco de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Conducta Sexual / Parejas Sexuales Tipo de estudio: Observational_studies / Prognostic_studies / Risk_factors_studies Límite: Female / Humans / Pregnancy Idioma: En Revista: Arch Sex Behav Año: 2024 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Canadá