Depression, anxiety, sexual dysfunction, and obsessive-compulsive disorder before and after female cosmetic genital surgery

Background: Plastic genital surgery is an important and common type of cosmetic surgery among women. Determination of therapeutic outcomes of surgery especially besides the somatic results is important. We aimed to determine the preoperative and postoperative depression, anxiety, sexual dysfunction, and obsessive-compulsive disorder in women undergoing cosmetic genital surgery in comparison with postoperative status. Methods and materials: In this before and after study, 30 consecutive women older than 18 years undergoing cosmetic genital surgery in 2018 and 2019 in Taleghani and Imam Khomeini Hospitals, Tehran, Iran were enrolled and preoperative and postoperative depression, anxiety, sexual dysfunction, and obsessive-compulsive disorder were compared in them using HADS (hospital anxiety depression scale), FSFI (female sexual function scale), and Yale-Brown OCD questionnaire. Results: The results in this study demonstrated that preoperative and postoperative depression, anxiety, sexual dysfunction, and obsessive-compulsive disorder were significantly different (P < 0.05). Conclusion: Cosmetic genital surgery can reduce depression, anxiety, sexual dysfunction, and obsessive-compulsive disorder in women.