Particularidades del desempeño sexual en pacientes con Cardiopatía Isquémica

Abstract

Starting at the end of the sixties in the last century psychology began an interesting process in which it has compromised the study and attention of problematic health-illness issues. When we immerse ourselves in the análisis of the health problems of the Cuban population, it is imposible not to think about the cardiovascular problems and especially isquemica cardiopathy. The isquemica cardiopathies cause a great physical and emotional impact on the population. After an event of this nature, a great anxiety of fear and danger is generated because the event may repeat with terminal consequences. This fear can also be transposed to the area of sexuality so that the person looses, in manycases, the sexual life they had before the event. Considering this was the motive to complete the present work with the object to determine the sexual peculiarities of 80 patients diagnosed with the illness who were being given care in the Provincial Clinical Surgical University Hospital «Camilo Cienfuegos» of Sancti Spiritus. Interviews and questionaires were used to diagnos the increase of sexual disfuncions in the patients, the reduction in the frequency of sexual relations and the increase in doubts and fears caused by the lack of proper counsuling. For all these reasons arises the need to propose a strategy of psychological intervention with the objective to give proper counseling to tose patients who have been diagnosed with Isquemica Cardiopathy so that they can find rehabilitation in their future sexual perfomance.