Factores sociales que influyen en la disminución del deseo sexual en los adultos mayores, en la Universidad del Adulto Mayor en la ciudad de Cuenca, Ecuador 2022

Abstract

Factors such as decreased age, marital status, level of education, religion, occupation, etc. They influence the daily life of the elderly, becoming an obstacle in the enjoyment of health and well-being at this stage of life. A self-applied survey was carried out on the students of the University for the Elderly of Cuenca. For this, a form that evaluates the inhibited sexual desire was applied. The tabulation and analysis was carried out with the SPSS v.25 program; as statistical measures frequencies, percentages and to estimate the relationship between the social variables and the decrease in sexual desire, Spearman's correlation was used and to estimate the influence of social factors on the decrease in sexual desire, 2x2 contingency tables were used to ODDS calculation with its respective confidence interval (95% CI). As results, it was obtained that the evaluated variables influence the decrease in sexual desire, 56% of women presented a decrease; 66.6% singles and 46.5% of married respondents presented a decrease in their sexual desire. 43.2% of higher level and 54.5% of respondents from secondary level presented a decrease. 66.7% of employees and 48.3% other (retired) presented a decrease. 50.9% of the Catholic religion and 28.6% of another, considered that it has decreased. In conclusion, 47% of the respondents presented a decrease in their sexual desire, social factors directly influence the decrease in the sexual desire of the elderly, as can be seen in the results obtained in the current investigation.