The purpose of this study is to assess the impact on sexuality in women with a spinal cord injury, twelve months after their first return to home, of a program including structured information and education on sexuality, delivered 6 months after their first return to home.

Brief Title

Sexual Health of Spinal Cord Injured Females

Official Title

Impact of an Information and Education Program on Sexuality and Social Integration in Women With a Spinal Cord Injury

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to assess the impact on sexuality in women with a spinal cord<br /> injury, twelve months after their first return to home, of a program including structured<br /> information and education on sexuality, delivered 6 months after their first return to home.

Detailed Description

Multicentre, prospective study, aiming to assess the effect on sexuality of an information
and education program in women with spinal cord injury.

Included patients will be women hospitalized for initial rehabilitation, and will be included
two weeks before their first return to home.

Socio-demographic data, diagnosis and etiology, secondary conditions, treatment,
comorbidities and expectations towards rehabilitation care will be assessed at inclusion.

At M3 Patients will be randomized in either the intervention arm or the control arm.

Patients enrolled in the intervention arm will benefit from a standardised information and
education consultation on physiology of sexual response 6 months after their return home.

Patients enrolled in the control arm will undergo the same follow-up but will only have the
usual unstructured and unformalized information provided by the clinical team.

At M3, M6, M12 secondary conditions , sexual function index (FSFI), social integration (LHS),
treatment and expectations towards rehabilitation care will be assessed