Table 2.
Self-reported bother associated with vaginal symptoms in postmenopausal women completing the Day-to-Day Impact of Vaginal Aging questionnaire
| Reported symptom | Self-reported bother associated with symptomsa | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Not at all | A little bit or moderately |
Quite a bit or extremely |
|
| Vaginal dryness (N=567) | 82 (14.5%) | 361 (63.7%) | 124 (21.9%) |
| Vaginal itching (N=317) | 11 (3.5%) | 255 (80.4%) | 51 (16.1%) |
| Pain with sexual intercoursea (N=220) | 6 (2.7%) | 157 (71.4%) | 57 (25.9%) |
| Vaginal irritation (N=214) | 13 (6.1%) | 156 (72.9%) | 45 (21.0%) |
| Vaginal soreness (N=106) | 6 (5.6%) | 86 (81.1%) | 15 (14.2%) |
All percentages presented in this table are row percentages.
a
. Participants were asked, “How much has this symptom bothered you in the past month?” Response options were “not at all,” “a little bit,” “moderately,” “quite a bit,” and “extremely.” Percentages are row percentages, with the denominator being the total number of women reporting each type of vaginal symptom.
b
. For this item assessing pain with vaginal sexual intercourse, respondents could indicate that the question was not applicable to them because they had not had intercourse recently.