Medicina Comunitária e Educação em Saúde

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Perception of Contributory Factors to Marital Sexual Satisfaction among Married Persons in Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, Nigeria: Implications for Family Health.

Cajetan Ikechukwu Ilo

Objective: The study aimed at determining the perception of contributory factors to marital sexual satisfaction among married persons in Ebonyi State University, Nigeria as influenced by socio- demographic variables of gender, age and length of marriage. Method: The study was a cross sectional survey which involved a sample of 144 randomly selected married persons. The instrument for data collection was the Perception of Marital Sexual Satisfaction Questionnaire (PMSSQ), a 15 item, 4-level scaled self-constructed questionnaire. Mean was used to answer the research questions with the criterion mean set at 2.5 and the hypotheses were tested using t-test and ANOVA. Results: Result showed that intimacy, amount of physical affection, pre-coital caressing, and frequency of coitus, frequency of orgasm by spouse and attitude of spouse to sex were perceived to positively contribute to marital sexual satisfaction. The result also indicated that age, gender and length of marriage influenced the perception of respondent and were significant on some of the identified factors. Conclusion: These findings have implications for family health and overall marital satisfaction which may manifest in both physical and emotional health problems for the couples and had devastating effect on the psych of the children. Based on the findings and discussion recommendations were made which included among others, the inclusion of family education in school’s curriculum in both the secondary and tertiary institutions and that natural family planning methods should be embraced to reduce the distance created by the use of contraceptives and improve marital sexual satisfaction