Prevalence of Mental Health Disorders Among Married Diabetic Sudanese Women (With Special Reference to Sexual Dysfunction)

The aim of this work is to determine the prevalence of mental health disorders (sexual dysfunction) in diabetic Sudanese married women living in Khartoum State, Sudan and its relation to variables related to demographic features and history and type of diabetes mellitus.This is a quantitative cross-sectional study comparative study.The study population was all married women attending diabetic care at Endocrinology and Diabetes Care Center in Elmolazmian -Omdurman and Omdurman Teaching Hospital -Khartoum, who are in the age category 18 to 60 years and represent different social, cultural and economic backgrounds.The total sample size = 400 (200 diabetic women and 200 none diabetic women).The study revealed that the mean values of desire, excitation, wetting, orgasm, over all satisfaction, painful dimensions and total on Sexual dysfunction Scale were (2.631.78, 6.121.23,8.902.40,5.621.36,7.521.22,6.211.22 and 36.9912.60)respectively, all lower than theoretical means with probability values (P < 0.05).Our study revealed that diabetes mellitus significantly increase the opportunity of sexual dysfunction among diabetic women; particularly when compared with none diabetic women.In addition depression increases with increase of sexual dysfunction among diabetic women.In order to appropriately deal with women's sexual issues, it is important to prepare a secure environment in the clinic, to improve the intelligence of health care providers about sexual issues, as well as increasing the number of psychiatrists and sex therapists.