Author(s)

Der Adolphe Somé^1*, Rélwendé Barnabé Yaméogo¹, Souleymane Ouattara¹, Dantola Paul Kain², Béwendin Evélyne Komboigo², Blandine Thiéba Bonané²

¹Department of Gynecology, Obstetrics and Reproductive Medicine, Souro Sanou University Teaching Hospital, Bo-bo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso.
²Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yalgado Ouedraogo University Teaching Hospital, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

Objective: To study the sexual experience of women after gynecological hysterectomy in the obstetrics and gynecology department of Yalgado Ouedraogo University Teaching Hospital in Burkina Faso. Patient and Method: We conducted a cross-sectional study from October 1, 2016 to March 30, 2017. It included any patient who had a gynecological indication for a hysterectomy in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of Yalgado Ouedraogo University Teaching Hospital (CHU-YO) during the study period. A total of 85 patients were included. We collected information from the consultation records, clinical records, and operating room registries and by surveying the patients themselves. Result: The frequency of hysterectomy in the gynecological period was 3.9%. The mean age of the patients was 51.71 (extremes: 35 and 66 years) and the mean parity was 4.8. Married women were the majority. Fibromyoma and genital prolapse accounted for 56.47% and 23.53% respectively of operative indications. Regarding postintervention sexuality, 29.41% of women declared no longer having sexual desire. Also, they complained of vaginal dryness (31.8%), decreased frequency of orgasm (42.3%), dyspareunia (37.65). Sexual dysfunction was present in 82.35% of women. There was a statistically significant difference between global sexual functioning and geographic origin, educational attainment, socio-economic level, surgical approach, preintervention sexual counseling, women’s psychological profile and their emotional relationship with their spouses. Conclusion: The psychosexual soundness of hysterectomy is important. A diagnosis of sexual disorders prior to the intervention and psychological follow-up throughout the therapeutic process of the pathology indicative of a hysterectomy is necessary for successful postoperative sexuality.

Sexual Experience, Gynecological Hysterectomy, Satisfaction, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Somé, D. , Yaméogo, R. , Ouattara, S. , Kain, D. , Komboigo, B. and Bonané, B. (2019) Sexual Experience of Women after Gynecological Hysterectomy in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of Yalgado Ouedraogo Teaching Hospital, Burkina Faso. Open Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 9, 1273-1283. doi: 10.4236/ojog.2019.99123.