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ReviewNursing open2025

Sexual and Reproductive Health for Women Who Live With Inflammatory Bowel Disease: An Integrative Review.

Kate O'Reilly, Susan McInnes, Eleanor Holroyd, Kath Peters

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Review in Nursing open, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Kate O'ReillyWestern Sydney University, Penrith, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8644-3803
Susan McInnesWestern Sydney University, Penrith, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3113-2930
Eleanor HolroydAuckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2993-8823
Kath PetersWestern Sydney University, Penrith, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5299-2863

Funding

Western Sydney University
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

aimsTo provide an understanding of the sexual and reproductive health issues for women who live with inflammatory bowel disease.

designWhittemore and Knaffle's integrative review.

methodsDatabases searched in this integrative review included: CINAHL Plus, Google Scholar, SCOPUS and Web of Science databases. A defined research aim guided the search strategy and facilitated the accurate extraction of data from primary qualitative and quantitative research conducted between 2012 and 2022.

resultsNineteen papers were included in this review. All papers were appraised using the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool and were found to be of good methodological quality. The following three themes were identified: (1) inflammatory bowel disease negatively impacts sexual, reproductive and social health; (2) inflammatory bowel disease and sexual functioning and (3) reproductive knowledge and reservedness to discuss sexual health. This review of the literature highlights that sexual and reproductive health issues for women who live with inflammatory bowel disease are very focused on sexual dysfunction and reproduction. The review illuminates that there is a dearth of information that explores women's sexuality more broadly across the lifespan.

Indexed as

Inflammatory Bowel DiseasesReproductive HealthSexual HealthFemaleHumansSexual Behaviorinflammatory bowel diseasesexual and reproductive healthwomen

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PMID40579754
PMCPMC12204847

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