Kimberley, Natalie, Hutson, John M., Southwell, Bridget R., and Grover, Sonia R. (2011) Well-being and sexual function outcomes in women with vaginal agenesis. Fertility and Sterility, 95 (1). pp. 238-241.

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Abstract

Objective: To assess long-term quality of life and sexual satisfaction outcomes of women treated for vaginal agenesis.

Design: An audit project using questionnaires to assess quality of life (World Health Organization Quality of Life Bref [WHOQoL-Bref]) and sexual satisfaction (Golombok Rust Inventory of Sexual Satisfaction [GRISS]).

Setting: Gynecology Department of Royal Children's Hospital.

Patient(s): Women with vaginal agenesis.

Intervention(s): Medical data were extracted from notes. Women were contacted at their review consultation or were offered the opportunity for review and participation in the audit.

Main Outcome Measure(s): WHOQoL-Bref and GRISS were measured. Correlation with medical details and treatment method was undertaken.

Result(s): Age range was 16–71 years (median, 23 years). WHOQoL-Bref (n = 28) scores (mean ± SD, 4.2 ± 0.8), were similar to the mean Australian population score. The GRISS questionnaire (n = 20) revealed that 75% of women had overall satisfactory scores. WHOQoL scores had a high correlation with GRISS scores. Time since diagnosis correlated to GRISS scores with 12 of 13 diagnosed >5 years earlier having satisfactory results. Women without a hymen had more problems with vaginismus.

Conclusion(s): General outcomes are good for these women, although vaginismus was an issue. There was a correlation between lower health satisfaction scores, feeling less feminine and feeling down, but not GRISS.

Item ID:	82919
Item Type:	Article (Research - C1)
ISSN:	1556-5653
Copyright Information:	Copyright © 2011 American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Published by Elsevier Inc.
Date Deposited:	18 Jun 2024 03:48
FoR Codes:	32 BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCES > 3215 Reproductive medicine > 321502 Obstetrics and gynaecology @ 100%
SEO Codes:	20 HEALTH > 2001 Clinical health > 200199 Clinical health not elsewhere classified @ 100%
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