Table 4.
Assessment of women’s attitude to sexual intimacy
| Question and answer options | Infertile group (n=120) |
Healthy group (n=120) |
ORa (95% CIb) | P value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N (%) | N (%) | |||||
| Is sexual intimacy important? | ||||||
| Very important | 35 (30.4) | 61 (52.6) | 1 | Reference | ||
| Important | 38 (33.1) | 26 (22.4) | 1.8 (1.1–3.0) | .036 | ||
| Not important | 42 (36.5) | 29 (25.0) | 1.7 (1.1–2.9) | .040 | ||
| Are you contented with your sexual intimacy? | ||||||
| Yes, very often | 12 (10.3) | 26 (22.4) | 1 | Reference | ||
| Sometimes | 55 (47.4) | 62 (53.5) | 2.2 (1.1–4.3) | .027 | ||
| No, never | 49 (42.2) | 28 (24.1) | 3.8 (1.7–8.7) | .002 | ||
| Has your attitude to sexual intimacy changed in previous year? | ||||||
| Positively | 11 (9.5) | 29 (25.0) | 1 | Reference | ||
| Did not change | 60 (51.7) | 62 (53.4) | 2.6 (1.3–5.3) | .006 | ||
| Negatively | 45 (38.8) | 25 (21.6) | 4.8 (2.0–11.1) | <.001 | ||
aOR, Odds ratio; bCI, Confidence interval.