Original scientific paper

SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION IN OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER AND PANIC DISORDER

Umut Mert Aksoy ; Psychiatric Clinic, Bakırköy Research and Teaching Hospital for Psychiatry and Neurology, İstanbul, Turkey
Şennur G. Aksoy ; Department of Psychology, Bakırköy Research and Teaching Hospital For Psychiatry and Neurology, İstanbul, Turkey
Fulya Maner ; Psychiatric Clinic, Bakırköy Research and Teaching Hospital for Psychiatry and Neurology, İstanbul, Turkey
Peykan Gokalp ; Maltepe University Medical Faculty Psychiatry Clinic, İstanbul, Turkey
Medaim Yanik ; Şehir University Psychology Department, İstanbul, Turkey

Abstract

Background: Clinical research has provided conflicting evidence regarding sexual dysfunction in patients with OCD and PD.
This study was undertaken to assess and compare certain parameters of sexual functioning in OCD and PD patients.
Subjects and methods: The study population consisted of 80 patients between 20 and 60 years of age with a diagnosis of OCD or
PD who were followed and treated at the anxiety outpatient unit of Bakirkoy Research and Training Hospital for Psychiatric and
Neurological Disorders between 2005 and 2006. The total study population comprised of 40 patients with OCD, 40 patients with PD,
and 40 healthy volunteers as the control group. Of the two questionnaires used for study purposes, the first provided information on
demographic data and certain parameters of sexual functioning, while the second was the validated Turkish translation of the
Golombok-Rust Sexual Satisfaction Inventory with transliteral equivalence.
Results: Male subjects with OCD had a lower age of first masturbation and first nocturnal ejaculation. Infrequency problem
among female and male patients with OCD occurred in 63.6% and 57.1%, respectively. Corresponding figures for PD patients were
36% and 38%. Thus, infrequency problem was more frequent among OCD patients. Sexual avoidance was found in 60.6% of female
OCD patients and in 64% of female PD patients. Anorgasmia was detected in 24.2% of the female subjects with OCD.
Conclusion: Sexual dysfunction unrelated to pharmacotherapy has been found to occur in OCD and PD. Assessment of sexual
functioning in these individuals before treatment may help prevent deterioration of sexual function that may occur upon introduction
of psychotropic medications.

Keywords

sexual dysfunction; obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD); panic disorder (PD)

Hrčak ID:

106325

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/106325

Publication date:

20.12.2012.

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