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Factors associated with sexual practices and positions performed by pregnant women: a cross-sectional study
Emanuelly Vieira Pereira1, Jameson Moreira Belém1, Maria Juscinaide Henrique Alves1
1Universidade Regional do Cariri. Crato, Ceará, Brazil.
Objectives:
to identify factors associated with the sexual practices and positions performed by pregnant women.
Methods:
a cross-sectional, quantitative study conducted with 354 pregnant women, in the interior of Ceará, Brazil, in 2016. For data collection, a form and a Pregnancy Sexuality Questionnaire were used.
Results:
there was a reduction in the sexual initiative of the woman, sexual disposition of the couple, sexual practices and most of the sexual positions, while the maintenance of preliminary sexual activities and initiative to perform them was verified. Sexual practices and positions decreased (p<0.0001): preliminary sexual activities, sexual disposition, lubrication, orgasm, pain or discomfort, sexual positions, sexual practices, and sexual satisfaction. Sexual practices and positions increased (p<0.0001) as a function of: education, number of deliveries, sexual life, desire and arousal, and sexual disposition of the pregnant woman, frequency of orgasm and of sexual practices (p<0.0001).
Conclusions:
sexual practices and positions of pregnant women were affected by domains of sexual function, sexual, reproductive, physical, and psychological aspects.
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