研究：生育、厭食和抑鬱影響女性性生活
Depression, anorexia, childbirth affect sex life
Depression, anorexia and child birth can affect a woman's sex life in different ways
Childbirth, anorexia and depression can affect a woman's sex life, but in different ways, a small study suggests.
Research has shown that women with mental health conditions, including major depression and eating disorders, tend to report more problems with their sex life than other women do.
In the new study, researchers found that women with either anorexia or depression typically had sex more frequently than new mothers did. They were, however, more likely to report having "problems" during sex, according to findings published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders.
This suggests that anorexia and depression have similar effects on a woman's sex life, while childbirth has a different sort of impact, according to the researchers, led by Dr. Frances A. Carter of the Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Otago University in New Zealand.
The study results are based on questionnaire responses from 76 women who had taken part in three previous, separate studies and included 10 women with anorexia; 24 women with major depression; and 42 women who'd given birth within the past two months. All of the women were married or in stable relationships.
Overall, Carter's team found that 80 percent and 79 percent of women with anorexia or depression, respectively, said they'd had sex in the past two weeks, compared with only half of the new mothers.
On the other hand, none of the women in the postnatal group said they had any problems during sex, while roughly one third of those with anorexia or depression said they did.
The fact that new mothers had sex less often is not surprising, according to Carter and his colleagues. However, the reported lack of any sexual difficulties is "more optimistic" than the results obtained from other studies, which "suggested that sexual difficulties were the norm."
The researchers add that their findings should be considered preliminary, in part because the study group was so small, particularly the number of women with anorexia.
一項小規模研究表明，生育、厭食和抑鬱都會影響女性的性生活，但三者產生的影響有所不同。
該研究表明，患重度抑鬱及厭食症等心理疾病的女性性生活問題要多於其他女性。
這項最新研究結果在《國際飲食紊亂研究》期刊上發表。研究人員發現，患厭食症和患抑鬱症的女性的性生活頻率都高於剛生過孩子的女性。然而，這兩類女性性生活中出現“問題”的機率更大。
該研究由新西蘭奧塔哥大學基督教醫學院的弗朗西斯•A•卡特負責。研究人員稱，這說明厭食和抑鬱對女性的性生活具有類似影響，而生孩子產生的影響則有所不同。
研究結果主要根據對76名女性的問卷調查得出，這些女性都參加過之前三項獨立研究，其中包括10名厭食症患者、24名重度抑鬱症女性以及42名生完孩子兩個月或不到兩個月的女性。這些女性都已結婚或有穩定的戀愛關係。
卡特的研究小組發現，總體來看，80%患厭食症的女性和79%患抑鬱症的女性稱她們在過去兩週內有過性生活，而這一比例在剛生完孩子的女性中僅爲50%。
從另一方面看，在剛生過孩子的女性中，沒有人稱自己的性生活有問題，而在患厭食症或抑鬱症的女性中，約有三分之一的人稱自己的性生活有問題。
卡特及其同事認爲，剛生完孩子的女性性生活頻率較低是正常現象。然而，這類女性稱“自己的性生活沒什麼問題”，這比其它研究得出的“（這類女性）性生活出現問題是普遍現象”的結果“更爲樂觀”。
研究人員稱，由於研究對象數量有限，尤其是其中患厭食症的女性數量較少，因此他們的研究還僅處於初級階段。
anorexia:厭食症
postnatal:產後的；分娩後的
