Epidemiology of sexual dysfunction in iran: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Background: the aim of this study was to determine the cumulative prevalence rate of every sexual dysfunctions (sds) in iranian population. methods: we searched international database such as: pubmed/medline,scopus,psychnet,and scholar google and iranian database such as iran psych,irandoc,iranmedex,and sid. search duration was between 1990 and 2013. results: from 449 articles were retrieved,then 11 articles on male with total sample size of 2142 and 8 articles on female with total sample size of 4391 were selected after critical appraisal. for quality assessment check list to evaluate a prevalence article was contained study population,sampling method,sample size,criteria for sd diagnosis,specific rates,study location,and authors list. in male,erectile dysfunction was 56.1%. in female,pooled estimation prevalence of hypoactive sexual desire disorder in complained group was 65.8% (95% confidence interval [ci]: 51.1-80.6%) compared to general population 35% (95% ci: 17.6-52.1%). sexual arousal disorder in clinical patient was 59.6% (95% ci: 39-80%) against 33.8% (95% ci: 18.3-49.3%) in general population. orgasmic disorder in complained was 35.5% (95% ci: 16-55%) and in general population was 35.3% (95% ci: 26.8-43.8%). sexual pain disorder pooled estimation prevalence were 35.2% (95% ci: 14.5-56%) versus 20.1% (95% ci: 6.4-33.8%) in complained and general population consecutively. conclusions: the rate of sd in iran was approximately the same of worldwide except orgasmic disorder which was two times more than the worldwide average. © 2015 ramezani ma.