Barriers to sexual health-seeking behaviors for Chinese women.
Attitude to health
Female sexual dysfunction
Sexual health
Women’s health service
Journal
Archives of women's mental health
ISSN: 1435-1102
Titre abrégé: Arch Womens Ment Health
Pays: Austria
ID NLM: 9815663
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
10 2023
10 2023
Historique:
received:
24
04
2023
accepted:
02
07
2023
medline:
11
9
2023
pubmed:
9
7
2023
entrez:
8
7
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Cognitive barriers to Chinese women's sexual health-seeking behaviours remained unclear. Therefore, we conducted this study to investigate the characteristics of the sexual health beliefs of Chinese women to clarify why they were reluctant to seek help for sexual issues. An online survey was undertaken from April to July 2020. A total of 3443 valid responses were gleaned (the effective rate was 82.6%), the participants of which were mainly Chinese urban women of childbearing age. Up to 66.0% (n=2271, the standardized rate was 66.8%~73.4%) felt ashamed of sexual health-related disorders. Most women (49.4%, n=1700) were strongly motivated to seek help for sexual issues but also had a great psychological impediment. Women with low motivation and a great psychological impediment were rare (6.4%, n= 219). The shame of sexual health-related disorders was the main barrier to sexual health-seeking behaviours for Chinese women, which should be given enough attention in related health services and sexual education.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37422612
doi: 10.1007/s00737-023-01348-7
pii: 10.1007/s00737-023-01348-7
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
581-588Informations de copyright
© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Austria, part of Springer Nature.
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