Dificuldades no retorno à atividade sexual nos primeiros seis meses após o parto, na cidade de Pelotas, RS

Abstract

Aim: Evaluating the time and problems met at resuming sexual intercourse after childbirth concerning women in Pelotas. Outlinig: Prospective Cohort Study. Sampling: Women who had their children at maternity hospitals in Pelotas, from September of 2002 to November of 2003. Population: From 2,741 parturients at perinatal period one obtained a random sample of 920 women on their 180 days after childbirth. Methods: Uni and multivaried analyses were performed and only those variables with a p<0.05 were considered as associated to the outcome with a significant statistically way. Prime Measures: Prevalence reason with a confidence interval. Results: The difficulty prevalence at resuming sexual intercourse was 25.5%, and 80% of the women resumed sexual intercourse on the first six months after deliverance. The main cause for not having sexual intercourse was for the woman not having a mate (63%); other causes were the lack of desire or time. The primiparas and women with a health problem on the prenatal or postnatal presented a higher prevalence difficulty: pelvic pains, insecurity and lack of desire. Conclusion: One found a high prevalence difficulty upon resuming sexual intercourse after deliverance. This was a study performed in a city at the south of Brazil, and that is why the findings are contextualized to the education and to the habits of these women. It is appropriate to highlight here the relevance 55 towards the need of an orientation at the prenatal, in order to soften or avoid problems which are prone to a resolution.