Psychosocial and Physiological Mechanisms in the Effect of Hormonal Contraception on the Female Sexual Desire
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2011-03-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
75 heterosexual women are asked to use 3 different types of contraception (Nuvaring, low-dose
combination pill, minipill), each during 3 months. On a monthly basis, questionnaires are
filled out about sexual desire and psychosocial, relational en sexual parameters. Also the
sexual desire of the partner is questioned. On a three-monthly basis, blood samples are drawn
to determine changes in hormonal parameters (one sample per product period).
75 lesbian women are doing the same trial, but during an extra 3 months period, they are
asked to have their natural menstrual cyclus as a control condition. Blood samples during
these extra months will be drawn at the third or fourth day after start of the menses.