Sex and pain: sexual satisfaction and sexual function in a sample of patients with non-pelvic benign chronic pain

Abstract

Introduction Most of research are conclusive when stating chronic pain and decreased life’s quality relationship. However, sexual factor is not usually analysed in a specific path. Desing and methods The aim of this study is to undertake a bibliographic review divided by analgesic groups in order to determine in a certain way the painkiller influence over the sexual response, and in a second place, to describe the connection between pain and sexual response in not-oncological chronic pain patients Results Results show that there is a high prevalence of sexual difficulties in patients of the Pain Units. These difficulties are related to psychological alterations, patients’ type of pain and age. Conclusions These results suggest that a multidisciplinary intervention, centred on the exhaustive evaluation of this problem, health education and sexual counselling, could contribute to the improvement of the quality of life of our patients.