Psychosexual states of women in the prenatal and postpartum period

Parshin Alexey Vladimirovich, Romanovskaya Anna Viktorovna, Polidanov Maxim Andreevich, Kondrashkin Ivan Evgenievich, Blokhin Igor Sergeevich, Tyapkina Darya Andreevna

Objective: to determine the psychosexual personality traits of patients in the third trimester of pregnancy and the postpartum period. Material and methods. The study included 92 patients who are part of a full-fledged family and do not suffer from mental and extragenital diseases. The study was conducted from April to September 2021. The survey was conducted twice: in the prenatal (22-40 weeks of pregnancy) and postpartum period. To study personal characteristics, a set of psychological tests was used: Heim 's test and the A. Beck depression scale. Results. The following patterns were revealed, confirmed statistically: the lower the resistance of patients to the action of stressful agents, the significantly higher their anxiety was and significantly more often an increase in the level of depression on the Beck scale was detected. Conclusion. Insufficient awareness of women about the changes occurring in her body during the prenatal period often leads to the fact that most of them become vulnerable, prone to the development of depressive disorders, which is an alarming fact. That is why the successful management of pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period requires not only the help of an obstetrician-gynecologist, but also psychological, sometimes psychotherapeutic support of the woman herself and the couple as a whole.

Keywords:psychosexual state of a woman, postpartum period, postpartum sexual dysfunction, psychosomatic states.