Effects of low sleep quality on sexual function, in women with fibromyalgia

• Published in: International journal of impotence research 2016-03, Vol.28 (2), p.46-49
• Main Authors: Amasyali, A S, Taştaban, E, Amasyali, S Y, Turan, Y, Kazan, E, Sari, E, Erol, B, Cengiz, M, Erol, H
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: 692/499; Adult; Age; Body mass index; Care and treatment; Complications and side effects; Correlation analysis; Disease; Erectile dysfunction; Fatigue; Female; Fibromyalgia; Fibromyalgia - complications; Health aspects; Humans; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; original-article; Pain; Physical therapy; Quality of life; Questionnaires; Rehabilitation; Reproductive Medicine; Rheumatology; Risk factors; rology; Sexual disorders; Sexual Dysfunction, Physiological - etiology; Sleep apnea; Sleep disorders; Sleep Wake Disorders - complications; Surveys and Questionnaires; Urology; Women; Womens health
• ISSN: 0955-9930; 1476-5489
• DOI: 10.1038/ijir.2015.31

Sexual dysfunction is a common experience in women with fibromyalgia. However, the physiopathology of this association is unclear. We aimed to evaluate whether sleep disturbance has an influence on sexual function in women with fibromyalgia. Fifty-four sexually active premenopausal women with fibromyalgia were enrolled in the study. The following questionnaires were used: the Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI), the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), the Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQ) and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). Appropriate statistical analyses were used by using SPSS 18. The mean FSFI score was 25.344±6.52 and showed no correlation with age, body mass index, BDI or duration of fibromyalgia. However, a positive correlation between sexual dysfunction and low sleep quality was found ( r =0.43; P =0.001). In addition, the median FSFI score was 29.2 (27.2–32.4) in patients with higher sleep quality (PSQI ⩽ 5), whereas it was 21.4 (18.9–25.3) in patients with lower sleep quality (PSQI>5) ( P