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Mário Lourenço1, Leandra Pinheiro Azevedo, José Luís Gouveia
1Psychiatric and Mental Health Department of Alto Ave's Hospital Center, Entidade Pública Empresarial, Guimarães, Portugal.
Abstract:
The purpose of this article was to study the relation between depression and its effect on the sexual desire in psychiatric patients. The sample comprised 89 patients from the Psychiatric and Mental Health Department of Alto Ave's Hospital Center, Entidade Publica Empresarial. The obtained results in this exploratory study revealed that depressive symptomatology severity is directly related with sexual desire. Variables gender, age, and working status, as well as, sociocultural levels indicated important and significant differences between patients.
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