Sexual health and socioeconomic-related factors in Spain

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Título: Sexual health and socioeconomic-related factors in Spain
Autor/es: Ruiz Muñoz, Dolores | Wellings, Kaye | Castellanos Torres, Esther | Álvarez-Dardet, Carlos | Casals Cases, Mariona | Pérez, Glòria
Grupo/s de investigación o GITE: Salud Pública
Centro, Departamento o Servicio: Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Enfermería Comunitaria, Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública e Historia de la Ciencia
Palabras clave: Sexuality | Health | Satisfaction | Safe sex | Sex offenses | Contraception
Área/s de conocimiento: Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública
Fecha de publicación: oct-2013
Editor: Elsevier
Cita bibliográfica: Annals of Epidemiology. 2013, 23(10): 620-628. doi:10.1016/j.annepidem.2013.07.005
Resumen: Purpose: The aim of the present study was to describe sexual health in Spain according to three important indicators of the World Health Organization definition and explore the influence of socioeconomic factors. Methods: We performed a population-based cross-sectional study of sexually active people aged 16-44 years residing in Spain in 2009 (2365 women and 2532 men). Three main aspects of sexual health were explored: sexual satisfaction, safe sex, and sexual abuse. The independent variables explored were age, age at first intercourse, reason for first intercourse, type of partner, level of education, country of origin, religiousness, parity, and social class. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression models were fitted. Results: Both men and women were quite satisfied with their sexual life, their first sexual intercourse, and their sexual relationships during the previous year. Most participants had practiced safe sex both at first intercourse and during the previous year. Levels of sexual abuse were similar to those in other developed countries. People of disadvantaged socioeconomic position have less satisfying, more unsafe, and more abusive sexual relationships. Women experienced more sexual abuse and had less satisfaction at their first intercourse. Conclusions: The state of sexual health in Spain is relatively good. However, we observed inequalities according to gender and socioeconomic position.
Patrocinador/es: This study was funded by the Ministry of Health, Social Policy and Equality of Spain (TI-EXT005-2/2) and the Ministry of Economy and Knowledge of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Spain (BE-DGR 2009).
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/40519
ISSN: 1047-2797 (Print) | 1873-2585 (Online)
DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2013.07.005
Idioma: eng
Tipo: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Revisión científica: si
Versión del editor: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2013.07.005
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