Table 4.
Sexual importance and activity by gender and cancer classification for partners of People with Cancer (PPWC)
| |
Women |
Men |
Test for group difference |
Sexual cancer |
Non-sexual cancer |
Test for group difference |
||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Item/Variable | n | % | n | % | χ 2 | p | φ | n | % | n | % | χ 2 | p | φ |
| Sex important part of the relationship: |
|
|
|
|
5.24 |
0.073 |
0.202 |
|
|
|
|
0.80 |
0.672 |
0.079 |
| Very important |
24 |
31.6 |
27 |
50.9 |
|
|
|
33 |
42.9 |
18 |
35.3 |
|
|
|
| Somewhat important |
41 |
53.9 |
22 |
41.5 |
|
|
|
35 |
45.5 |
27 |
43.5 |
|
|
|
| Not important |
11 |
14.5 |
4 |
7.5 |
|
|
|
9 |
11.7 |
6 |
11.8 |
|
|
|
| Sex important part of life: |
|
|
|
|
9.43 |
0.009 |
0.254 |
|
|
|
|
2.11 |
0.348 |
0.121 |
| Very important |
20 |
23.5 |
29 |
47.5 |
|
|
|
31 |
35.6 |
18 |
31.0 |
|
|
|
| Somewhat important |
52 |
61.2 |
27 |
44.3 |
|
|
|
43 |
49.4 |
35 |
60.3 |
|
|
|
| Not important |
13 |
15.3 |
5 |
8.2 |
|
|
|
13 |
14.9 |
5 |
8.7 |
|
|
|
| Change in sexual activities since onset of cancer: |
|
|
|
|
1.37 |
0.163 |
0.098 |
|
|
|
|
0.68 |
0.411 |
0.035 |
| Yes |
62 |
75.6 |
40 |
66.7 |
|
|
|
64 |
73.6 |
38 |
70.4 |
|
|
|
| No | 20 | 24.4 | 20 | 33.3 | 23 | 26.4 | 16 | 29.6 | ||||||
Note. The CSFQ Sexual Pleasure Subscale is only available for ‘after cancer’.