Abstract

PEREIRA, Maria da Graça et al. Sexual functioning, quality of life and metabolic control in patients with Diabetes Type 1 and Type 2. Rev. SBPH [online]. 2014, vol.17, n.1, pp. 70-87. ISSN 1516-0858.

Introduction: To assess the relation between sexual functioning, metabolic control and quality of life in Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes patients. Method: 116 patients with diabetes participated in the study and answered the instruments: Female Sexual Functioning, International Index of Erectile Function, and Diabetes Quality of Life. Glycemic control was assessed by the value of glycosilated hemoglobin value (HbA1c). Results: For type 1 diabetes, sexual functioning, in women, was associated with better metabolic control and this relation did not occur in men. For type 2 diabetes, the greater impact of treatment was associated with low sexual desire in men. In women, more concern with diabetes was related with vaginismus. Type 1 patients showed lower quality of life and more concerns about the disease than type 2 patients and revealed better sexual functioning than type 2 patients, regardless of gender. Conclusion: This study shows the importance of sexual functioning as an important intervention area, in diabetes, given its implication on quality of life and metabolic control. Therefore, intervention programs need to include an assessment of sexual functioning and health professionals should take sexual functioning in consideration when they asses patients with diabetes.

Keywords : diabetes; sexual functioning; metabolic control; quality of life.

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