Table 2.

Categorized answers on the first question “What are your most important goals, you want to accomplish with the surgery? In other words what you hope eventually to have achieved by the operation?”

Category	Characteristic answer	n (%)
1. Symptoms		92 (96)
Urinary symptoms		67 (70)
Disappearing of urine incontinence	“I do not get wet every time”	38 (40)
Disappearing of urgency/frequency	“That I can walk for two hours as before without having to pee 3 times”	26 (27)
Normalize micturation	“That I can pee normally as before”	18 (19)
No need for sanitary napkin	“That I can go out without Tena lady (sanitary napkin)”	10 (10)
Prolapse symptoms		50 (52)
Disappearing of prolapse sensation	“That no more flesh comes from my vagina”	50 (52)
No more need for vaginal pessary	“No need for using pessary”	5 (5)
Pain symptoms		29 (30)
Improvement of the pain (generally)	“Reduction in the abdominal pain”	20 (21)
Improve back pain	“No more back pain”	9 (9)
Bowel symptoms		20 (21)
Improvement of defecation	“That I can defecate normally as before”	17 (18)
Disappear of faecal incontinence	“No involuntary stool loss moments”	4 (4)
2. Lifestyle		29 (30)
Improve physical capabilities	“To do my work and sport optimally without all those problems”	29 (30)
3. Sexual life		17 (18)
Improvement sexuality	“That I can have sex normally as before without hinder”	14 (15)
Disappear of dyspareunia	“Sex without pain”	3 (3)
4. Emotional health		16 (17)
Improve body image	“That I become a young woman again”	9 (9)
Improve fatigue symptoms	“No more feeling tired”	8 (8)
5. Other		6 (6)
Disappear of menstruation	“No more bleeding, no more periods”	4 (4)
Decrease the chance to get cancer	“Prevent the risk of womb cancer, I use Tamoxifen for 4 years”	2 (2)

Data are presented as n (percentage)

n number of times reported