Relationship between pelvic floor muscle and sexual function in physically active older women / Relação da funcionalidade da musculatura do assoalho pélvico com a função sexual de idosas ativas fisicamente / Relación de la funcionalidad de la musculatura del piso pélvico con la función sexual de las personas mayores activas físicamente

Abstract Introduction: Physical activity is beneficial to psychological and physical health, which ultimately affects sexual health and quality of life. In turn, strong pelvic floor muscles (PFM) can positively affect the sex life of women. Objective: Assess the relationship between pelvic floor muscle and sexual function in physically active older women. Method: 35 sexually and physically active older women with an average age of 69.5 years participated in this study. Physical activity level was assessed with an accelerometer. A diagnostic flow chart and the female sexual function index (FSFI) were applied to assess female sexual function and the PERFECT scheme to assess PFM. Data were collected by two previously trained and blinded researchers and submitted to descriptive statistics and Spearman's correlation. Results: There was a significant correlation between the number of fast-twitch muscle fiber contractions and sexual function (rho = -0.41032; p = 0.0144) and the orgasm dimension (rho = -0.34679; p = 0.0413) in older participants. Conclusion: Pelvic floor muscles are related to female sexual function and it is important for older women to remain physically active.

Resumo Introdução: A atividade física é benéfica à saúde física e psicológica, afeta a saúde sexual e a qualidade de vida. Por sua vez, músculos do assoalho pélvico (MAP) fortes podem ter um efeito positivo na vida sexual das mulheres. Objetivo: Avaliar a relação entre os MAP e a função sexual em mulheres idosas fisicamente ativas. Método: Participaram 35 idosas, sexualmente e fisicamente ativas, com idade média de 69,5 anos. O nível de atividade física foi avaliado com um acelerômetro. Um fluxograma de diagnóstico e índice de função sexual feminina (FSFI) foram aplicados para avaliar a função sexual feminina e o esquema PERFECT para avaliar os MAP. Os dados foram coletados por dois pesquisadores previamente treinados e cegos e submetidos à estatística descritiva e à correlação de Spearman. Resultados: Houve uma correlação significativa entre o número de contrações das fibras musculares de contração rápida e a função sexual (rho = -0,41032; p = 0,0144) e a dimensão do orgasmo (rho = -0,34679; p = 0,0413) nos idosos. Conclusão: Os MAP estão relacionados à função sexual feminina e é importante que as mulheres idosas permaneçam fisicamente ativas.

Resumen Introducción: La actividad física aporta beneficios para la salud física y psicológica, lo que influencia la salud sexual y la calidad de vida. Por su parte, los músculos del piso pélvico (MAP) cuando están bien entrenados, pueden influir positivamente en la vida sexual de las mujeres. Objetivo: Relacionar la funcionalidad de la musculatura del piso pélvico con la función sexual de mujeres ancianas activas físicamente. Método: Participaron en el estudio 35 ancianas sexual y físicamente activas con una edad promedio de 69,5 años. El nivel de actividad física se evaluó por medio del acelerómetro. Se aplicó una ficha diagnóstica, Índice de Función Sexual Femenina para evaluar la función sexual femenina, y la evaluación de los músculos del piso pélvico se realizó por medio del esquema PERFECT. La recolección de datos se realizó por pares y a ciegas, con dos investigadoras previamente entrenadas. Los datos fueron tratados por la estadística descriptiva y la correlación de Spearman. Resultados: Hubo correlación significativa entre el número de contracciones rápidas de fibras de la musculatura del suelo pélvico y la función sexual (rho = -0,41032, p = 0,0144) y la dimensión orgasmo (rho = -0,34679; p = 0,0413) en las ancianas investigadas. Conclusión: La musculatura del piso pélvico está relacionada con la función sexual femenina, destacando la importancia de mantenerse activa físicamente en la vejez.

Enfermedad renal crónica terminal en el embarazo: reporte de un caso y revisión de la literatura / End-stage chronic kidney disease in pregnancy: a case report and literature review

RESUMEN La enfermedad renal crónica (ERC) se observa en aproximadamente el 4% de las mujeres en edad fértil, pero el embarazo suele ser infrecuente en este grupo de pacientes, principalmente en aquellas con enfermedad renal crónica terminal (ERCT), reportándose entre el 1% al 7%. Los efectos de la enfermedad renal y su tratamiento pueden, a su vez, afectar el embarazo, incluido el desarrollo del feto, teniendo alta frecuencia las complicaciones perinatales. Es una patología que durante la gestación tiene una alta morbimortalidad para el binomio, por lo cual la cooperación interdisciplinaria intensiva de nefrólogos y obstetras es imprescindible para el manejo exitoso de la embarazada en esta condición. Se presenta el caso de una paciente con diagnóstico de ERCT antes de la concepción, manejo de su patología y seguimiento hasta la finalización del embarazo.

SUMMARY Introduction and objectives: The climacteric symptoms together with genital prolapse in the aging woman, affects the sexual function and the health related quality of life. The objective of this study was to describe sexual function and health related quality of life in climacteric women with genital prolapse according to sociodemographic and clinical characteristics. Methods: Descriptive cross-sectional design, on a consecutive sample of 45 climacteric women enrolled in two Family Health Centers of the Ñuble region, were selected all those between 42 and 60 years of age, with a clinical or ultrasound diagnosis of genital prolapse, with active sexual life the last 6 months and without hormone replacement therapy. To evaluate sexual function the Index of Feminine Sexual Function was applied and for the health related quality of life the Menopause Rating Scale was applied. Descriptive statistics were used, and to analyze the difference between the variables, the Chi-square and Fisher's Exact test were applied. In all cases a level of significance was considered p <0.05. The data was analyzed with the statistical software SPSS v. 23. Results: A statistically significant difference was observed between schooling and sexual function (p = 0.005) and type of delivery and health related quality of life (p = 0.034). Conclusions: The educational level could be considered as a protective factor of sexual function.

Sexual function in female juvenile idiopathic arthritis patients

Abstract Objective: To evaluate sexual function female adolescents and young adults with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) and healthy controls. Methods: After exclusion, 21 female adolescent and young JIA patients and 25 healthy controls were selected for this study. Sexual function was assessed by the Sexual Quotient Questionnaire for Females (SQQ-F) score, which is a validated tool and adapted for Brazilian Portuguese language. Demographic data, JIA clinical/laboratory parameters and treatment were also assessed. Results: The median current age [26.5 (17-38.1) vs. 29.3 (19.7-35.8) years, p = 0.700)] as well as age at the first sexual activity [18 (14-30) vs. 17 (10-24) years, p = 0.158] were similar in JIA patients and healthy controls. The median of SQQ-F score was alike in both groups [75.9 (50-92) vs. 78.2 (58-94), p = 0.529], as well as frequencies of sexual dysfunction (14% vs. 12%, p = 1.000). The frequencies of all sexual domains (desire/sexual fantasies, desire/interest, arousal/foreplay, arousal/lubrication, arousal/in tune with partner, penetration/relaxation, pain/penetration, desire/involvement, orgasm and general satisfaction scores) were similar in JIA patients and healthy controls (p > 0.05). Conclusions: To our knowledge, this was the first study using a validated sexual score in a chronic arthritis population suggesting a low frequency of overall sexual dysfunction in young JIA patients. Future multicenter studies with a large sample will be necessary to confirm this finding.

Saúde sexual e reprodutiva de mulheres seis meses após a vivência de um episódio de morbidade materna grave / Sexual and reproductive health of women six months after experiencing an episode of severe maternal morbidity

Este estudo teve como objetivo avaliar os efeitos da morbidade materna grave na saúde sexual e reprodutiva de mulheres seis meses após o evento. Estudo observacional, transversal, realizado em dois hospitais na cidade de Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo Brasil: Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto onde ficam internadas as puéperas que tiveram algum tipo de complicação na gestação (Grupo 1) e Centro de Referência em Saúde da Mulher, onde ficam internadas as puérperas de baixo risco gestacional (Grupo 2), totalizando 110 participantes, no período de maio de 2015 a agosto de 2016. A coleta de dados, a qual aconteceu da mesma forma nos dois hospitais, foi realizada em duas fases: a primeira correspondeu ao recrutamento das participantes enquanto ainda estavam internadas após o parto, onde foram obtidos os dados obstétricos, neonatais, sociodemográficos e reprodutivos diretamente do prontuário médico; a segunda ocorreu seis meses após a alta hospitalar das participantes, as quais foram contatadas via telefone para agendamento das visitas domiciliares, onde foram colhidos os dados sociodemográficos, econômicos, ginecológicos, obstétrico e os relacionados à saúde sexual, através do instrumento Female Sexual Function Index. Os dados foram analisados através do software Statistical Package for the Social Sciences e R versão 3.1.2. Foram utilizadas análises univariada e bivariada com distribuição de frequências absolutas e relativas, medidas de tendência central, variabilidade dos dados, testes Mann-Whitney, Qui-quadrado e Exato de Fisher, regressão beta inflacionada. No Grupo 1, a média de idade das mulheres foi de 30 anos, com prevalência da cor branca e a maioria solteira com relação ao estado civil, mas vivia junto com o companheiro há mais de 10 anos, enquanto no Grupo 2, a idade média foi de 27,1 anos com prevalência de cor parda, casada e com tempo de relacionamento entre dois e cinco anos. A escolaridade foi praticamente a mesma nos dois grupos, com uma média de 9,5 anos de estudo. Tanto no Grupo 1 quanto no Grupo 2, a maioria não fumava, nem fazia uso de drogas ilícitas ou bebidas alcoólicas. Enquanto no Grupo 1 a maioria havia feito cesárea, sendo 36,6% dos bebês nascidos prematuros, no Grupo 2, a maioria teve parto vaginal com apenas 7,2% dos bebês nascidos antes de 37 semanas. Das mulheres do Grupo 1, as morbidades materna grave mais frequentes foram as relacionadas aos distúrbios hipertensivos. Não houveram associações entre a ocorrência de morbidade materna grave e a predisposição à disfunção sexual, no entanto, em todos os domínios relacionados à função sexual (desejo, excitação, lubrificação, orgasmo, satisfação e dor), as mulheres do Grupo 2 tiveram melhores pontuações, no entanto com a regressão Beta inflacionada, foram encontradas associações entre os domínos orgasmo e a variável cor, domínio satisfação e a variável tempo de relacionamento e entre o domínio dor e a morbidade materna grave, demonstrando que esse grupo de mulheres sofre com dispareunia quando comparadas com as mulheres que não tiveram complicações na gestação

The objective of this study was to to evaluate the effects of severe maternal morbidity on sexual and reproductive health of women six months after the event. Cross-sectional observational study carried out in two hospitals in the city of Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo Brazil: Hospital of the Clinics of the Medical School of Ribeirão Preto, where the patients who had some kind of complication during pregnancy (Group 1) and Reference Center for Women's Health, where low-risk pregnancies (Group 2) are hospitalized, totaling 110 participants, from May 2015 to August 2016. Data collection, which occurred in the same way in both hospitals, was performed in two phases: the first corresponded to the recruitment of the participants while they were still hospitalized after delivery, where the obstetric, neonatal, sociodemographic and reproductive data were obtained directly from the medical record; the second occurred six months after the patients were discharged from the hospital, who were contacted by telephone to schedule home visits, where socio-demographic, economic, gynecological, obstetrical and sexual health data were collected through the Female Sexual Function Index . The data were analyzed through the software Statistical Package for the Social Sciences and R version 3.1.2. Univariate and bivariate analyzes were used with absolute and relative frequency distributions, central tendency measures, data variability, Mann-Whitney, Chi-square and Fisher Exact tests, inflated beta regression. In Group 1, the average age of the women was 30 years, with white prevalence and the majority single in relation to the marital status, but lived with the partner for more than 10 years, while in Group 2, the average age was 27.1 years old, with a prevalence of brown, married and with a relationship between two and five years. Schooling was practically the same in both groups, with an average of 9.5 years of study. In both Group 1 and Group 2, most did not smoke, nor did they use illicit drugs or alcoholic beverages. While in Group 1 the majority had delivered cesarean, with 36.6% of babies born preterm in Group 2, the majority had vaginal delivery with only 7.2% of babies born before 37 weeks. Of the women in Group 1, the most frequent severe maternal morbidities were those related to hypertensive disorders. However, in all domains related to sexual function (desire, arousal, lubrication, orgasm, satisfaction and pain), there were no associations between the occurrence of severe maternal morbidity and the predisposition to sexual dysfunction, the women in Group 2 had better scores However, with inflated beta regression, associations were found between domains orgasm and color variable, satisfaction domain and time relationship variable, and between pain domain and severe maternal morbidity, demonstrating that this group of women suffers from dyspareunia when compared with women who had no complications during pregnancy

Índice de función sexual en trabajadoras de la salud / Sexual function index in health workers

Objetivo: Determinar la función sexual femenina de trabajadoras de la salud. Método: Estudio cuantitativo, descriptivo, transversal. Universo formado por mujeres que se desempeñan en un hospital de alta complejidad, cuyas edades fluctúan entre 20 a 64 años. Se caracterizó el perfil biosociodemográfico de la trabajadora junto al Índice de Función Sexual Femenina (IFSF). El análisis estadístico se realizó aplicando análisis univariados y bivariados, coeficiente de correlación de Pearson o Spearman y análisis de varianza. Resultados: El puntaje del IFSF logra su máxima expresión alrededor de los 35 a 39 años (29,7 +/- 4,9) y luego disminuye progresivamente (23,0 +/- 8,9). Se observa un 32,6 por ciento de disfunción sexual, 29 por ciento de desorden del deseo, 10,4 por ciento de dificultades de excitación, 5,6 por ciento de problemas de lubricación, 9,7 por ciento de desorden en el orgasmo, 14 por ciento de problemas de satisfacción sexual y 9,9 por ciento de dispareunia. Conclusiones: El IFSF en trabajadoras de la salud varió en concordancia con la edad, menopausia, educación y problemas de sexualidad en la pareja. El estamento auxiliar de servicio alcanzó mayores índices de disfunción sexual.

Objective: To determine the female sexual function of health workers. Method: quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional study. The universe is made by women who work in a high complexity hospital, ranging from 20 to 64 years old. The biosociodemographic profile of the worker was characterized by the Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI). Statistical analysis was performed using univariate and bivariate analysis. Pearson or Spearman correlation coefficient was used and analysis of variance was applied. Results: The FSFI score achieved its best around 35-39 years (29.7 +/- 4.9) and then it decreases progressively (23.0 +/- 8.9). It shows 32.6 percent of sexual dysfunction, 29 percent of desire disorder, 10.4 percent of arousal difficulties, 5.6 percent of lubrication problems, 9.7 percent of orgasm disorder, 14 percent of problems of sexual satisfaction and 9.9 percent of dyspareunia. Conclusions: The FSFI in health female workers vary in accordance with age, menopause, education and sexual problems in couples. The auxiliary service establishment reached higher rates of sexual dysfunction.