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Sexual dysfunctions and treatment compliance in individuals with psychotic disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

G. Unsal ,
S. Karaca ,
N. Onan ,
Y. Can Oz ,
S. Aydın ,
H. Aydöner ,
H. Gulec ,
E. Ongun  and
N. Eren
G. Unsal
Affiliation:
Marmara university, faculty of health sciences, psychiatric nursing department, Istanbul, Turkey
S. Karaca
Affiliation:
Marmara university, faculty of health sciences, psychiatric nursing department, Istanbul, Turkey
N. Onan
Affiliation:
Karabuk university school of health science, psychiatric nursing department, Karabuk, Turkey
Y. Can Oz
Affiliation:
Marmara university, faculty of health sciences, psychiatric nursing department, Istanbul, Turkey
S. Aydın
Affiliation:
Erenköy psychiatric and neurological diseases training and research hospital, training psychiatric nursing, Istanbul, Turkey
H. Aydöner
Affiliation:
Erenköy psychiatric and neurological diseases training and research hospital, management nursing, Istanbul, Turkey
H. Gulec
Affiliation:
Erenköy psychiatric and neurological diseases training and research hospital, cominity mental health, Istanbul, Turkey
E. Ongun
Affiliation:
Marmara university, faculty of health sciences, psychiatric nursing department, Istanbul, Turkey
N. Eren
Affiliation:
Istanbul university Istanbul, faculty of medicine, psychiatry, Istanbul, Turkey

Abstract

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Introduction

Sexual dysfunctions are more common in individuals with psychotic disorders and has a major impact on both quality of life and compliance.

Objectives

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether a relationship between sexual dysfunction and level of treatment compliance in individuals with psychotic disorders.

Methods

The sample group of the study consisted of 173 in-patients who agreed to participate were selected by random sampling method. The permission was obtained from the hospital's ethics committee. In this study, to assess the sexual functionality Golombok-Rust inventory of sexual satisfaction male and female form and to assess the treatment compliance; medical treatment compliance rate scale is used.

Results

When sexual problems and treatment compliance compared to gender, subscales of satisfaction (t = 4,423, P = 0.000), avoidance (t = 3.348, P = 0.001), touch (t = 2.165, P = 0.032) and overall total (t = 4.015, P = 0.000), although a statistically significant difference was found, there were no differences in treatment compliance. Aditionally, there is no relation between sexual problems and treatment compliance in men. It is also found that there is a weak negative statistical relation amongst treatment compliance and communication (r = −0.244, P = 0.027), avoidance (r = −0.270, P = 0.014), anorgasmia (r = −0.253, P = 0.022) and overall total (r = −0.249, P = 0.024) in women. According to these findings while sexual problems increase, treatment compliance decreases.

Conclusions

The level of compliance to the treatment and subscales of sexual problems; satisfaction, avoidance, and touch mean scores differ from each other. There was a weak negative correlation in between Women's compliance and sexual problems.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
e-Poster Walk: Mental health care; Mental health policies and migration and mental health of immigrants
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 41 , Issue S1: Abstract of the 25th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2017 , pp. S342
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017
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