Behçet Hastalığında Cinsel Sorunlar ve Etkileyen Faktörlerin Değerlendirilmesi

Objectives: The prevalence of sexual dysfunction in Behçet patients, patients’ practices toward sexual prob-lems, pre-disease sexual life and distribution of post-disease sexual problems were evaluated. Patients and Methods: Sexually active 96 patients were included to the study. The data were collected with the “Sexual Problems in Behçet Patients Data Collection Form” and “Arizona Sexual Experience Scale (ASES)”. The scale’s score interval is 5-30; 11-above scores indi- cate sexual dysfunction. Results: Of the patients, 51 (53.1%) were 40-year-old and above, 49 (51%) were women; the most fre-quent symptoms were oral aphtosis (58.3%), genitalulcers (31.2%), and erythema nodosum (28.1%). MeanASES score was 14.2±5.8 66 patients (68.7%) hadsexual dysfunction. The most prevalent problems weredecreased frequency of intercourse (n=32, 86.5%),painful sexual relation (n=18, 48.6%) and unwilling-ness (n=9, 24.3%). Most of the patients (n=15, 40.5%)who expressed sexual problems were not using anypractice for the solution. None of the patients receivedany information about sexual problem and the mostpreferenced source of information would be the doc-tors (n=83, 86.4%) in case having this opportunity.Female gender and the belief about the impact ofBehçet’s disease on sexual life determined ASES score (43%). Conclusion: Sexual dysfunction in Behçet’s diseasewas seen in a significant proportion.