Sexual relationships in married dementia sufferers
C.G. Ballard
Bok Engelsk 1997
| Utgitt | 1997
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| Omfang | Side 447- 451
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| Opplysninger | Objectives. To determine the proportion of couples, one of whomsuffers from dementia, continuing with a sexual relationship, theirlevel of satisfaction with their sexual relationship and theassociations of remaining sexually active.Design. A survey of married couples enrolled in a prospectivedementia study.Setting. Psychiatric services and a memory clinicSample. The partners of 47 married patients with mild to moderatedementia.Measures. The assessment included the GMS/HAS/SDS package, theMarital Intimacy Scale (with some additional questions regardingsexual relations), the CAMCOG, the Carers Stress Scale, the CornellDepression Scale and the Burns Symptom Checklist. Dementia wasdiagnosed according to DSM-III-R, McKhann, McKeith, Hachinski and HASAGECAT criteria.Results. Forty partners completed the study. Nine (22.5%) continuedto have a sexual relationship, all of whom were satisfied with thesituation. Twelve (38.7%) of the carers who were not sexually activewere dissatisfied with the absence of a sexual relationship. Therewas a trend for male carers to be more likely to be involved in acontinuing sexual relationship. Dissatisfaction with the absence of asexual relationship was significantly associated with a diagnosis ofvascular dementia in the patient and showed a trend towards anassociation with younger patient age.Conclusions. Nearly a quarter of married dementia sufferers areinvolved in a continuing sexual relationship, emphasizing theimportance of further research in this area. (C) 1997 by John Wiley &Sons, Ltd.
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