Prevalence and associated factors of Female Sexual Dysfunction among Female Population in Aksum Town, Tigray Region, Ethiopia, 2019. A Community Based Cross Sectional Study

Abstract Objective : Female sexual dysfunction is age related, progressive and highly prevalent, afffecting more than half of womens in general population. A Community based cross sectional study was implemented from March to April 2019 and a total of 823 participants were interviewed. Data was entered using Epi-data version 3.1 and then exported to SPSS Version 20 for analysis. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis was carried out to assess the association. The p-value less than 0.05 found from multivariate logistic regression analysis was considered as statistically significant. The strength of the association was presented by odds ratio with 95% C.I and model fitness was checked by Hosmer-Lemeshow goodness and goodness fit was 0.086. Result : A total of 823 women were completed the questionery with mean of Age and in this study the prevalence of Female sexual dysfunction was found to be 57.1% . Factors like , old age (AOR= 4 .12; 95% C.I:1.39, 12.22), being divorced (AOR=4.83; 95% C.I: 2.41, 9.66), widowed (AOR=3.28; 95% C.I:1.58, 6.80), single (AOR=6.24; 95% C.I: 2.22, 17.53), menopause (AOR=2.11; 95% C.I:1.06, 4.20), pill contraceptive (AOR=0.24; 95% C.I: 0.06, 0.95) were the factors associated with Female sexual dysfunction in the study area.