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The comprehensive postpartum visit should include providing guidance on sexuality, management of dyspareunia, and resumption of intercourse. There is little literature examining the incidence of such counseling.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Patients who attended their postpartum visit at a large, urban academic medical center were invited to complete a web-based survey at their postpartum visit as part of a quality initiative. The survey consisted of a total of 34 questions evaluating frequency and quality of sexual health counseling, as well as sexual experience after delivery. Descriptive statistics, chi-squared tests, and multivariable logistic regression were used to analyze our findings.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Our survey study had a 41.5% response rate (277\/668). A total of 91% of participants reported receiving some sexual health counseling at their postpartum visit but only half of participants reported the counseling as helpful. Providers were statistically more likely to discuss sexual health with primiparous over multiparous participants (94.9% vs 87.9%; P\u00a0=\u00a00.037) and patients who had not yet resumed intercourse (93.5% vs 85.7%; P\u00a0=\u00a00.039). Providers had longer conversations with patients who delivered vaginally versus via cesarean (P\u00a0=\u00a00.039).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Providers at this institution are almost universally offering some sexual health counseling to patients. 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