Ventegodt S
Quality-of-Life Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Arch Sex Behav. 1998 Jun;27(3):295-307. doi: 10.1023/a:1018655219133.
From a representative sample of 2460 Danish citizens, ages 18 to 88, anonymous answers were obtained to a 317-item quality-of-life (QL) questionnaire, which included five questions on sexuality. Among the respondents in the sample, 1.2% reported they were bisexual and 0.9% homosexual. Although sexual problems were found in all age groups, lack of a suitable sex partner and inability to achieve orgasm were more common among the young and erectile dysfunction more common among the old. Most frequent problems among the women were reduced sexual desire (11.2%) and the lack of a suitable sex partner (4.9%), and among the men, the lack of a suitable sex partner (7.3%) and erectile dysfunction (5.4%). The QL of persons with sexual problems was from 1.2 to 19.1% lower than the population mean (as expressed in terms of this mean). The intermediate sized covariation between sexual problems and the QL suggests that such problems can be symptoms of a reduced QL rather than medical problems to be tackled through medical intervention or sex therapy proper. Implications for a quality-of-life-sensitive clinical practice are discussed.
从2460名年龄在18岁至88岁之间的丹麦公民代表性样本中，获得了对一份包含317个项目的生活质量（QL）问卷的匿名回答，该问卷包括五个关于性的问题。在样本中的受访者中，1.2%报告自己是双性恋，0.9%是同性恋。尽管在所有年龄组中都发现了性问题，但缺乏合适的性伴侣和无法达到性高潮在年轻人中更为常见，勃起功能障碍在老年人中更为常见。女性中最常见的问题是性欲减退（11.2%）和缺乏合适的性伴侣（4.9%），男性中则是缺乏合适的性伴侣（7.3%）和勃起功能障碍（5.4%）。有性问题的人的生活质量比总体均值低1.2%至19.1%（以该均值表示）。性问题与生活质量之间中等程度的协变表明，此类问题可能是生活质量下降的症状，而非通过医学干预或适当的性治疗来解决的医学问题。文中讨论了对关注生活质量的临床实践的启示。
