Perception of male stroke patients about sexuality and their quality of life.

Abstract

Background: Stroke is one of the major causes of disability throughout the world in every year. Following stroke a person’s sexuality hampered significantly. On the other hand, the problem is to take part in sexuality affects the entire quality of life of the stroke survivors. This study was focused to know the experience of female stroke patient about their sexuality. Objectives of this study were to understand the problems of sexual relationship of female stroke patient that they faced after having stroke, to understand the perception of female stroke patient about sexuality, and to understand how do they maintain their sexual life after stroke. This study was conducted by using qualitative content analysis approach of qualitative method. Purposive sampling was used for selecting Participants. Data was collected by using face to face interview with a semi structured question. Data was analyzed by using content analysis. After analyzing data, it was found that almost 46% of the participants were age group 48-57 years. The mean age of the respondents was 46.6 years. While the educational status we found 8% were never attended school, 24% were primary, 16% were H.S.C and 24% were graduate or above among the participants. These study shows 48% were ischemic and 52% were hemorrhagic stroke among participant. In this study Cronbach’s alpha scores for SSQOL shows ranging between 0.7 to 0.79 which were as per domain energy (0.79), family (0.78), mobility (.77), mood (.79), self-care (.76), upper extremity (.77) and work (.77). On the domain level, Cronbach’s alpha scores were good only for the language (0.85), personality (0.8), thinking (0.8) and vision (0.83) domains. Some of the participants reported that their interest to build sexual relationship has decreased after stroke which is known as decreased libido. Stroke has an extraordinary effect on sexuality in survivors. Stroke contrarily affects the patient's life, for example, sexual capacities and associations with the companion or spouse Most of the stroke survivors think that there is no difficult to build and maintain good relationship with partner as their partner is very understanding and they lead a happy spousal life Psychological support is very important for stroke patient after stroke. There are strong arguments to support the provision of psychological support for improving functional independence, mood, coping and quality of life after stroke survivors. So, it can be said that the quality of life of stroke survivor can depend on psychological care