What Couples Say about Their Recovery of Sexual Intimacy after Prostatectomy: Toward the Development of a Conceptual Model of Couples' Sexual Recovery after Surgery for Prostate Cancer

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 494-504

  Wittmann, Daniela ^a,b   Carolan, Marsha ^c   Given, Barbara ^c   Skolarus, Ted A ^a,d   Crossley, Heather ^a   An, Lawrence ^a   Palapattu, Ganesh ^a   Clark, Patricia ^a   Montie, James E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VA ANN ARBOR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Couples; Prostatectomy; Sexual recovery; Survivorship

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; EXPANDED PROSTATE CANCER INDEX COMPOSITE; FEMALE; FEMALE SEXUAL FUNCTION INDEX; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE ASSESSMENT; GRIEF; HUMAN; INTIMACY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOURNING; NERVE INJURY; POSTMENOPAUSE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EDUCATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; SELF CONCEPT; SEX THERAPY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUAL INTIMACY; URINE INCONTINENCE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COITUS; COMPLICATION; FAMILY SIZE; ORGASM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUALITY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COITUS; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGASM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84922550574     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jsm.12732     Document Type: Article

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