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<Articles JournalTitle="Acta Medica Iranica">
  <Article>
    <Journal>
      <PublisherName>Tehran University of Medical Sciences</PublisherName>
      <JournalTitle>Acta Medica Iranica</JournalTitle>
      <Issn>0044-6025</Issn>
      <Volume>58</Volume>
      <Issue>2</Issue>
      <PubDate PubStatus="epublish">
        <Year>2020</Year>
        <Month>06</Month>
        <Day>29</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </Journal>
    <title locale="en_US">Depression, Anxiety and Sexual Dysfunction Among Jordanian Women With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus</title>
    <FirstPage>56</FirstPage>
    <LastPage>63</LastPage>
    <AuthorList>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Zaina</FirstName>
        <LastName>Alazawi</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Family Medicine, Ministry of Health, Amman, Jordan.</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Ola</FirstName>
        <LastName>Alqudah</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Family Medicine, Ministry of Health, Amman, Jordan.</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Ahmad</FirstName>
        <LastName>Al-Bashaireh</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">College of Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Al-Ahliyya Amman University, Amman, Jordan.</affiliation>
      </Author>
    </AuthorList>
    <History>
      <PubDate PubStatus="received">
        <Year>2019</Year>
        <Month>07</Month>
        <Day>31</Day>
      </PubDate>
      <PubDate PubStatus="accepted">
        <Year>2020</Year>
        <Month>04</Month>
        <Day>24</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </History>
    <abstract locale="en_US">The aims of this study are to determine the prevalence of sexual dysfunction and to examine the relationships of sexual function and psychological factors of depression and anxiety and diabetes-related factors in Jordanian women with type 2 diabetes mellitus. This study employed a cross-sectional, descriptive, correlational design. All eligible participants with type 2 diabetes mellitus were consequently recruited from primary care centers. All enrolled participants were asked to complete questionnaires: Arabic version of the Female Sexual Function Index, Beck Depression Inventory-II, Beck Anxiety Inventory, and demographic questionnaires. Physical and biological measures were collected from the patient's medical records. 107 women with type 2 diabetes mellitus were recruited with a mean of age of 52.46&#xB1;8.38 years. The prevalence of female sexual dysfunction was 94.4%. Regarding the mean scores of the Arabic version of the Female Sexual Function Index domains, the highest mean score was for pain (5.09&#xB1;1.51), and the lowest mean score was for sexual arousal (2.44&#xB1;1.28). This study found significant inverse relationships between female sexual function and age (r= -0.340, P&lt;0.01), duration of diabetes (r= -0.211, P=0.029), fasting blood sugar (r= -0.234, P=0.015), anxiety (r= -0.375, P&lt;0.01), and depression (r= -0.480, P&lt;0.01). Our study found female sexual dysfunction is widely prevalent in Jordanian women with type 2 diabetes mellitus (94.4%). There were significant correlations between anxiety, depression, and female sexual function among women with type 2 diabetes mellitus.</abstract>
    <web_url>https://acta.tums.ac.ir/index.php/acta/article/view/8024</web_url>
    <pdf_url>https://acta.tums.ac.ir/index.php/acta/article/download/8024/5369</pdf_url>
  </Article>
</Articles>
