| Sexual Life of Husband and Wife after Hysterectomy |
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Jin Kyung Kim1, Hyo Jung Koh2 |
1Kyungpook National Unversity Hospital, Daegu, Korea
2College of Nursing, Keimtung University, Daegu, Korea |
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| Abstract |
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The purpose of this study was to provide basic data from confirming factors that could help nurses tailor counseling programs for married couples who were facing the prospect of a hysterectomy.
A descriptive design was used to study a total of 81 married couples (a total of 162 subjects) between 2 to 18 months after hysterectomy, due to a benign gynecology disease at a University Hospital in Daegu. The study was conducted using questionnaires from March 1999 to June 2000.
This study used the Sexual Knowledge Measurement of Koo, Ja-sung (1996), Sexual Attitude Scales of Hudson, Murphy, and Nurius (1994), Sexual Attitude Measurement of Jang, Soon-bok (1989), and Sexual Activity Questionnaires of Thiriaway, Fallowfield, and Cuzick (1996) modified and supplemented by advice from experts in order to measure sexual knowledge, sexual attitude, and sexual activity. The Sexual Function Inventory of Derogatis (1979), translated by Jang, Soon-bok (1984), was used to measure the sexual satisfaction of the subjects.
For data analysis, the study executed chi-square test, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation, and multiple regression in accordance with the purpose of the study using SPSS/PC+WIN 10.0 program. Also, this study obtained Cronbach's alpha for examination of reliability.
The results are as follows:
1) The sexual knowledge of the husband was higher than that of the wife after hysterectomy, with an that of the wife and a mean of 11.57 (±2.28) for the husband. However, there was no statistically significant difference (t = .681, p = .497).
2) The sexual attitude of the husband was more liberal than that of the wife after hysterectomy, as shown by the mean 3.25 (±0.48) in the case of the wife and the mean 3.42 (±0.48) in the case of the husband. 3) There was a statistically significant difference (t = 2.399, p = 0.018). Reason 2: Corrected spacing, capitalization, and punctuation errors.
4) There was no statistically significant difference between the scores of sexual activity of wife and husband by period elapsed after hysterectomy.
There was no statistically significant difference between the score of sexual satisfaction of wife and husband by period elapsed after hysterectomy.
5) The wife subjects showed positive correlation among sexual knowledge, sexual attitude, sexual activity, and sexual satisfaction. The husband subjects showed positive correlation only between sexual knowledge and sexual activity, sexual activity and sexual satisfaction, sexual attitude and sexual satisfaction, sexual knowledge and sexual satisfaction.
There was a positive correlation between the sexual knowledge, sexual attitude, sexual activity, and sexual satisfaction of the wife and husband.
6 ) Only the variable of sexual activity among factors of sexual satisfaction of the wife subjects showed the statistical significance (F = 52.452, p < 0.001), while variables of sexual attitude (F = 20.360, p < 0.001) and sexual activity (F = 14.142, p < 0.05) among factors of sexual satisfaction of the husband subjects showed a statistical significance. |
| Key Words:
Hysterectomy; Sexual Life |
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