Table 3.

Incidence and prominence of motivations for labial reduction surgery on online communities vs. surgeons' websites^†

Motivations	Incidence		Prominence
	Online communities	Surgeons' websites	Online communities	Surgeons' websites
	% [CI]	% [CI]	M (SD)	M (SD)
Emotional discomfort	71.0 [61.0–81.0]	98.0 [92.0–100***	52.0 (40.5)	38.6 (23.8)*
Self	48.8 [37.6–59.9]	65.0 [49.6–80.5]	18.3 (25.8)	12.8 (16.9)
Social	38.8 [27.8–49.7]	72.5 [58.0–87.0***	15.0 (23.8)	21.5 (22.5)
Sexual relations	37.5 [26.7–48.3]	15.0 [3.4–26.6]*	15.8 (26.4)	2.0 (5.1)***
Emotional enhancement	32.5 [22.0–43.0]	37.5 [21.8–53.2]	14.4 (25.2)	11.0 (17.4)
Private area	28.8 [18.6–38.9]	35.0 [19.6–50.5]	11.6 (23.3)	8.3 (13.6)
Sexual relations	11.3 [4.2–18.3]	17.5 [5.2–29.8]	2.8 (9.7)	2.7 (6.5)
Functional discomfort	52.5 [41.3–63.7]	90.0 [80.3–99.7***	31.1 (36.8)	47.1 (24.8)*
Private area	27.5 [17.5–37.5]	82.5 [70.2–94.8***	10.7 (21.0)	20.5 (13.1)**
Sexual relations	21.3 [12.1–30.4]	15.0 [3.4–26.6]	8.1 (20.0)	2.1 (5.4)
Exercise	21.3 [12.1–30.4]	65.0 [49.6–80.5***	7.2 (17.0)	13.4 (11.4)*
Functional enhancement	7.5 [1.6–13.4]	20.0 [7.0–33.0]*	2.5 (12.3)	3.3 (7.1)

^†Asterisks mark significant differences between the online communities vs. surgeon's websites concerning the incidence and occurrence of motivations, whereby ***P < 0.001, **P < 0.01, and *P < 0.05.

CI = confidence interval; M = mean; SD = standard deviation