Relationship between Sexual Quality of Life with Sexual Function and Sexual Distress in clinical married employed women

Abstract Objective: Sexual Quality Of Life (SQOL) is an important dimension of women's quality of life and several factors affect it. In this study, the relationship between SQOL with sexual function and sexual distress of clinical married employed women was investigatedMethods: The present study is a cross-sectional study that was performed on 385 clinical married employed women in hospitals of Tehran city Universities of Medical Sciences, using multi-stage sampling method during 2018. The research instruments include demographic information questionnaire, standardized Persian versions of female sexual function, female sexual distress scale, SQOL-F and Beck depression questionnaires and a researcher-made questionnaire of factors related to SQOL. The study data were analyzed using SPSS18 statistical software and the application of independent t-test, one-way ANOVA, chi-square and multiple linear regression.Results: 43.4% and 41.8% of the participants respectively had poor quality of sexual life and high sexual distress; While 64.7% of them had low sexual function. The variables of job type, education (postgraduate, bachelor’s and master’s degree) and domains of desire, satisfaction and pain in FSFI, total sexual function score and sexual distress score, were related factors to SQOL score.Conclusions: The majority of subjects in this study had good sexual quality of life but low sexual function, so the sexual quality of life in women can be affected by various factors (not just sexual function).