• Evaluation of sexual health of infertile women
  • Mohammad amin Masoumi,1,* zeinab sadat moosavifard,2
    1. BSc in Nursing, Department of Nursing, Bandar Abbas Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bandar Abbas, Iran.
    2. Department of Nursing, Faculty of nursing, Bandar Abbas Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bandar Abbas, Iran.


  • Introduction: According to the definition of the World Infertility Organization, failure to achieve clinical pregnancy following 12 months of unprotected sex is defined. Infertility is one of the most common diseases of women that is associated with problems in the physical, mental and social spheres. Endanger health One of the dimensions of health is sexual health. Therefore, the present study was conducted to determine the sexual health of destroyed women.
  • Methods: The following study is a review study of the search sites and databases, SID Google scholar, Scopus, Iran medex, pubmed, Magiran, Elmnet, with the keywords sexual health, infertility, women's health, problems Sex, reproductive health, risk factor and their English equivalent were performed without time interval. Of all the articles found, 15 were descriptive B-analytical articles in accordance with the purpose of the study, which were entered into the review cycle and used.
  • Results: According to the evidence in most studies, infertile women had poor sexual health. In general, infertility has a negative effect on the quality of family planning, sexually transmitted diseases such as AIDS and cervical cancer, sexual satisfaction, violence against women, gender-based violence and high-risk sexual behaviors. They disrupt, so that infertility has the greatest impact on violence against women and the least impact on high-risk sexual behaviors.
  • Conclusion: According to the results of studies, infertility affects various aspects of sexual health. On the other hand, due to the fact that sexual health is the guarantor of the health of the family center and its importance is such that sexual health disorders are directly related to family family disorders. Health, especially in infertile women, and by holding training classes to help promote women's sexual health, as well as health professionals and those interested in conducting more research on sexual health.
  • Keywords: Infertility, sexual health, women