Clinical Assessment of Positive Negative Symptoms Age of Onset and Gender in a Sample of Egyptian Patents Having Schizophrenia for More than Two Years

Author: Owida M.A., Wilson A.K., Tawfik M., Abdel aal I., Youssef I.M., Fatah Ahmed M.A .

Source:
The Egyptian Journal of Psychiatry , 1999 vol 22,2 :267-276
For the majority of people, the most important relationship in their adult lives is sexual. Male sexual dysfunction, in the literature, bad a greater interest than female sexual dysfunction. Hence, in Egypt, little is known about female sexual dysfunction either in the province of psychiatry or gynecology. Our study aimed at illustrating the socio-demographic and clinical profile of some Egyptian female patients having sexual dysfunction and attending AI-Hussein and Bab Alshareia Hospitals. Complete gynecological examination and semi-structured psychiatric interview with the aid of sexual Dysfunction Questionnaire were completed for every patient. The sample consisted of 163 patients who were selected randomly, above 18 years of age, married and diagnosed as having sexual dysfunction. The majority of them lied in the age group 20 and less than 30 years with a mean age of 27.5 years (+ 6.77). Most of the sample were working and educated. 57.7% of the sample had a duration of marriage of 7 years and more. 71.2% had children 59.5% of the sample gathered their information about sex and marital relations from their mothers. The minority of the sample (5.5%) bad + ve family history of sexual dysfunction. Only 30.1% of the sample came complaining directly from manifestations of sexual dysfunction. The majority of the rest of the sample complained from pelvic heaviness (38.7%) and low back pain (28.8%). The most frequently found diagnoses were: Nonorganic dyspareunia (15.3%), nonorganic vaginismus (14.7%) and lack or loss of sexual desire (13.5%). The least frequent were. marked feeling of inadequacy of body and sex organs (1.8%), failure of genital response (2.5%) and excessive masturbation (3.1 %).