Comparison of Women with Gestational Diabetes and Healthy Pregnant Women in Terms of Quality of Sex and Sexual Dysfunction

Objective: This descriptive research is to compare women with gestational diabetes mellitus in their third trimester and healthy pregnant women in terms of quality of sex and sexual dysfunction. Method: The data of this cross-sectional study were collected between September and December 2015. The study population consisted of the healthy women and women with gestational diabetes in two region in Turkey. The study included a total of 130 pregnant women. Data were collected face to face interview using the “The Descriptive Questionnaire” which included demographical characteristics and “Golombok-Rust Inventory of Sexual Satisfaction Female Questionnaire”. The data obtained were assessed by SPSS 20 Program. The data were analyzed using arithmetic means, percentage distributions and min-max values as well as the Mann Whitney-U and Student t tests. Results: The mean age of the women included in the study was 30.58±3.82 and their mean gestational week 31.75±5.12. Most of the pregnant women had education at primary school level, were married, lived in provincial centers, had less income than expenses and had health insurance. Of the women with gestational diabetes, 44.6% had their blood sugar measured once a week. The differences between the mean scores of total satisfaction, and the mean touch, frequency, communication, satisfaction, avoidance and anorgasmia subscale scores of women with gestational diabetes and healthy pregnant women were statistically significant (p