Muhammad Saleem, Muhammad Adeeb, Areeha Khan Durrani, Ali Raza Siddique.
Sexual desire and marital satisfaction among coronary angioplasty patients - pre and post design.
Pak Heart J Jan ;52(1):31-5.

Objective: To access the differences in sexual desire and marital satisfaction among coronary angioplasty patients before and after their angioplasty. Methodology: The quasi-experimental pre-test and post-test design was conducted at Punjab Institute of Cardiology Multan, from September 2017 to July 2018. The study population were male patients of CAD and they were asked to fill the sexual desire inventory-2 and ENRICH Marital Satisfaction Scale before the coronary angioplasty and again three months later when they came for the scheduled checkup after their coronary angioplasty. SPSS 24.0 was used for the analysis of collected data. Results: This study comprised of total 47 male patients with mean age 42.35 +4.82. The result showed that sexual desire at pre-design was significantly positively correlated (r= .41, p < .01) with marital satisfaction. However, in post design, results also showed that sexual desire was significantly positively correlated (r= .34, p < .04) with marital satisfaction. Results also showed that means scores of sexual desire and marital satisfaction as 54.30 and 40.15 respectively in pre-design and in post-design mean scores of both study variables were 40.91 and 25.40 respectively.Conclusion: Sexual desire and marital satisfaction are reduced in the CAD patients after the coronary angioplasty. There is need to carry out more researches to determine the factors and causes behind this dilemma.

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