Demographic, clinical, and psychological factors influencing sexual activity cessation in patients with angiographically-confirmed ischaemic heart disease.

CONCLUSIONS: Cessation of sexual activity in patients with IHD after a hospitalisation due to coronarography is associated with their older age, being single, obesity, lower quality of life, depression, higher level of anxiety, and lower acceptance of illness. Underestimating or omitting the realm of sexual health of hospitalised patients with IHD affects the patients' return to sexual activity. Patients with IHD, who decided to discuss, during their hospitalisation, the impact of cardiac disease and the invasive procedure they had undergone on their sexual activity, more frequently return to sexual activity over the 6-months observation period. PMID: 27086339 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Psychiatria Polska - Category: Psychiatry Tags: Psychiatr Pol Source Type: research