Avaliação do índice de satisfação sexual em mulheres gestantes

Abstract

The gestational process is marked by several changes occurring in the woman's body. Among the countless changes are physical, hormonal, postural and sexual, mainly, because besides everything, women bring a great load of fears, taboos, myths and beliefs imposed by society that make difficult, among other functions, that of sexuality. Due to this, it is common the presence of sexual dysfunctions during the entire gestational period in which changes in libido, orgasm, satisfaction and lubrication are quite regular in this phase of a woman's life. The objectives of this research involve evaluating the level of sexual desire and satisfaction in women throughout the quarters of pregnancy and observing possible alterations as well as observing the presence of pain or discomfort during sexual relations. The method is a descriptive analytical study of quantitative character through the application of a remote questionnaire through the online platform Google Forms and information and communication technology tools (tic's) for pregnant women aged 18 years or older, residents of the state of Paraíba and with gestational age above 10 weeks could volunteer and answer the questions individually and anonymously. Through the answers of 139 pregnant women in the evaluation of the questionnaire it was possible to identify six domains of sexual response: desire, excitement, orgasm, lubrication, satisfaction and the presence of pain or discomfort in the sexual relationship. She found that most of the women were married, brown, Catholic, aged between 26 and 31 and lived in João Pessoa. The majority of the women 64.7% had little sexual desire, 53.6% reported having excitement during sexual intercourse, 60.5% felt lubrication during sexual intercourse, 50% felt orgasm, 44.5% felt very satisfied in relation to sex with their partner and 68.5% of the women reported having felt pain few times and almost never. This survey brought us closer to the intimate reality of women during pregnancy, something that is little discussed in the clinical practice of health professionals and other areas. We must understand that sexuality is part of the basic physiological needs of the human being and in pregnancy this should not be different, as it can also help the pregnant woman to work the muscles of the pelvic floor allowing to work the body biomechanics of the woman and to diminish some obstacles of the pre-partum and childbirth period.