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Alev Ekemen1, Kerime Derya Beydağ2
1İzmir Tepecik Research and Training Hospital, Education Family Health Center, İzmir, Turkey.
Objective:
This descriptive study was conducted to determine the factors affecting the quality of sexual life of married and sexually active women treated with medication due to depression.
Methods:
Sample included 228 depressive patients on antidepressants for at least 1 month presenting to the Psychiatry Clinic of a hospital in the west side of Turkey, between April and June 2018.
Results:
Women who were in the young age group, did not have any problems in sexual life before starting depression medication, had sexual intercourse 11 times or more per month, proposed to initiate a sexual intercourse together with their husbands were found to have higher Sexual Quality of Life-Female scores. There was a decrease in the women's frequency of sexual intercourse per month after the use of medication.
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