Sexual functioning, health beliefs, and compliance with high blood pressure medications

Abstract

This study compared sexual functioning in 84 hypertensive subjects enrolled in an inner city hypertensive program with a matched group of 84 nonhypertensice subjects attending ambulatory care. Using the Sexual Functioning Questionnaire (SFQ), hypertensive subjects achieved lower levels of sexual functioning than nonhypertensive subjects (F = 21.60, df = 1/164, p <-.01), use of a complex drug regimen was associated with low level of sexual functioning (p