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. 2015 Jun 29;19(2):120–129. doi: 10.5213/inj.2015.19.2.120

Table 3.

Participant-reported outcomes by age 40–49 years

Variable Individuals with LUTS Individuals without LUTS P-value
EQ-5D index score (n=751) 0.90±0.15 0.95±0.09 <0.001
EQ-VAS score (n=751) 73.7±18.8 77.5±19.4 0.001
Employment status (n=751)
 Full time 454 (77.2) 129 (79.1) 0.156
 Part time 66 (11.2) 9 (5.5)
 Not employed 68 (11.6) 25 (15.3)
WPAI (%)
 Work time missed due to health (n=474) 1.8±6.6 0.4±3.2 0.033
 Impairment while working due to health (n=579) 17.4±29.0 11.5±25.3 0.068
 Overall work impairment due to health (n=460) 17.3±28.4 10.8±24.7 0.034
 Activity impairment due to health (n=667) 15.2±25.0 10.8±23.3 0.005
Any work impairment (n=497) 176 (45.4) 32 (29.4) 0.009
CES-D scale ≥ 21 (n=751) 99 (16.8) 6 (3.7) <0.001
Currently sexually active (n=751) 346 (58.8) 111 (68.1) 0.111
Decreased sexual activity (n=751)
 ‘Quite a bit’ to ‘a great deal’ 95 (16.2) 12 (7.4) 0.010
Decreased enjoyment of sexual activity (n=457)
 ‘Quite a bit’ to ‘a great deal’ 39 (11.3) 5 (4.5) 0.122
Satisfaction for sexual activity (n=457) 296 (85.6) 102 (91.9) 0.309
ED (n=457)
 ‘Moderately impotent’ to completely impotent’ 18 (5.2) 1 (0.9) 0.164

Values are presented as mean±standard deviation or number (%).

LUTS, lower urinary tract symptoms; EQ-5D, EuroQoL-five dimensions; EQ-VAS, EuroQoL-visual analogue scale; WPAI, work productivity and active impairment; CES-D, center for epidemiological studies depression scale; ED, erectile dysfunction.