Studies on the effects of endometriosis and infertility have so far mainly taken into account only one of the pathologies and the perspective of affected women, while studies on the effects on couples are lacking. This study shows the need to consider not only affected women but also their male partners in their burden in clinical work and also to conduct further studies to differentiate between the effects of infertility and endometriosis and their interrelationships. |
Introduction
Materials and methods
Setting and questionnaires
Data analysis
Results
Sociodemographic data
Total (n = 62) | Endo + /Inf−* (n = 15) | Endo + /Inf + ** (n = 47) | p-value | |
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Mean (SD) / N (%) | Mean (SD) / N (%) | Mean (SD) / N (%) | ||
Sociodemographic | ||||
Age | 31.00 (5.30) | 27.87 (7.20) | 32.00 (4.16) | 0.024a |
Partnership duration in years | 7.15 (4.37) | 4.62 (3.81) | 7.64 (4.34) | 0.032a |
Child present already | 10 (16.2) | 2 (13.4) | 8 (16.0) | 1.000c |
Education | 0.118b | |||
No degree | – | – | – | |
Secondary school | 37 (59.7) | 11 (73.3) | 26 (55.3) | |
University | 24 (38.7) | 3 (20.0) | 21 (44.7) | |
Endometriosis | ||||
New diagnosis | 7 (11.3) | 1 (6.7) | 6 (12.8) | 1.000c |
Infertility | 47 (75.8) | |||
Duration of desire for a child (years) | 2.81 (2.10) | |||
Psychosocial | ||||
Depression | 4.61 (5.24) | 6.53 (5.22) | 3.98 (5.14) | 0.019a |
Social support | 7.59 (2.41) | 7.65 (2.90) | 7.57 (2.27) | 0.469a |
Partnership satisfaction | 8.69 (1.92) | 8.64 (1.98) | 8.70 (1.93) | 0.850a |
Sexuality | ||||
Sexual satisfaction | 7.22 (3.34) | 6.00 (3.64) | 7.48 (3.25) | 0.204a |
Frequence of sex. intercourse (last 4 weeks) | 0.090c | |||
Never | 9 (14.5) | 5 (33.3) | 4 (8.5) | |
Once/Month | 9 (14.5) | 3 (20.0) | 6 (12.8) | |
Once/Week | 18 (29.0) | 2 (13.3) | 16 (34.0) | |
Several times/Week | 19 (30.6) | 4 (26.7) | 15 (31.9) |
Total (n = 46) | Endo + /Inf-* (n = 9) | Endo + /Inf + ** (n = 37) | p-value | |
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Mean (SD) / N (%) | Mean (SD) / N (%) | Mean (SD) / N (%) | ||
Sociodemographic | ||||
Age | 35.54 (6.26) | 33.44 (9.45) | 36.05 (5.27) | 0.397a |
Partnership duration in years | 7.16 (4.41) | 5.36 (4.03) | 7.51 (4.45) | 0.193a |
Child present already | 9 (19.5) | 4 (44.4) | 5 (13.5) | 0.039c |
Education | 0.243c | |||
No degree | – | – | – | |
Secondary school | 23 (50.0) | 6 (66.7) | 17 (45.9) | |
University | 22 (47.8) | 2 (22.2) | 20 (54.1) | |
Endometriosis | ||||
New diagnosis | 5 (10.9) | 1 (11.1) | 4 (10.8) | 1.000c |
Infertility | 37 (80.4) | |||
Duration of desire for a child (years) | 2.62 (1.76) | |||
Psychosocial | ||||
Depression | 2.11 (3.15) | 4.00 (5.66) | 1.70 (2.22) | 0.327a |
Social support | 6.50 (2.69) | 6.11 (3.19) | 6.59 (2.59) | 0.643a |
Partnership satisfaction | 9.14 (1.18) | 7.90 (2.13) | 9.44 (0.51) | 0.051a |
Sexuality | ||||
Sexual satisfaction | 7.64 (2.64) | 6.44 (4.02) | 7.94 (2.13) | 0.492a |
Frequence of sexual intercourse (last 4 weeks) | 0.433c | |||
Never | 8 (17.4) | 3 (33.3) | 5 (13.5) | |
Once/Month | 7 (15.2) | 2 (22.2) | 5 (13.5) | |
Once/Week | 13 (28.3) | 1 (11.1) | 12 (32.4) | |
Several times/Week | 13 (28.3) | 3 (33.3) | 10 (27.0) |
Predictors of partnership and sexual satisfaction: multiple linear regression for all individuals
Not standardized coefficients | Standardized coefficients | T | Sig | 95,0% CI for Ba | |||
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Regression coefficient B | Standard errora | Beta | Upper | Lower | |||
(Intercept) | 0.118 | 0.210 | 0.536 | 0.593 | − 0.286 | 0.485 | |
Gender | 0.143 | 0.099 | 0.139 | 1.273 | 0.207 | − 0.048 | 0.341 |
Age | 0.078 | 0.058 | 0.135 | 1.192 | 0.237 | − 0.021 | 0.185 |
Partnership duration | 0.040 | 0.048 | 0.078 | 0.758 | 0.450 | − 0.049 | 0.114 |
Depression* | − 0.128 | 0.088 | − 0.228 | − 2.155 | 0.034 | − 0.326 | − 0.001 |
Social support* | 0.105 | 0.051 | 0.210 | 1.976 | 0.051 | 0.007 | 0.224 |
Infertility | − 0.111 | 0.153 | − 0.078 | − 0.740 | 0.461 | − 0.401 | 0.199 |
Not standardized coefficients | Standardized coefficients | T | Sig | 95,0% CI for Ba | |||
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Regression coefficient B | Standard errora | Beta | Upper | Lower | |||
(Intercept) | − 0.312 | 0.377 | − 0.792 | 0.431 | − 1.031 | 0.489 | |
Gender | − 0.035 | 0.196 | − 0.016 | − 0.172 | 0.864 | − 0.433 | 0.293 |
Age | 0.088 | 0.165 | 0.064 | 0.662 | 0.510 | − 0.198 | 0.370 |
Partnership duration | − 0.032 | 0.094 | − 0.030 | − 0.323 | 0.748 | − 0.230 | 0.180 |
Depression * | − 0.290 | 0.148 | − 0.251 | − 2.679 | 0.009 | − 0.577 | − 0.040 |
Frequency sexual Intercourse* | 0.645 | 0.138 | 0.517 | 5.588 | 0.000 | 0.393 | 0.900 |
Infertility | 0.192 | 0.268 | 0.068 | 0.720 | 0.474 | − 0.327 | 0.718 |