Table 3.

Sexually inactive (NSA) Pelvic Organ Prolapse/Incontinence Sexual Questionnaire–International Urogynecology Association Revised (PISQ-IR) scale correlations with 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36), Kings Health Questionnaire (KHQ), and clinical measures

	Dimension: NSA		Dimension: quality and satisfaction
Scale	Not sexually active- condition specific	Not sexually active- partner related	Not sexually active-global quality	Not sexually active-condition impact
	NSA-CS	NSA-PR	NSA-GQ	NSA-CI
SF-36 scales a
Physical functioning	−0.55**	−0.01	−0.17	−0.20
Role-physical	−0.45*	0.11	−0.05	−0.17
Bodily pain	−0.40*	0.17	0.04	−0.27
General health perception	−0.54**	0.07	−0.10	−0.22
Vitality	−0.41*	0.21	−0.16	−0.19
Social functioning	−0.45**	0.03	−0.18	−0.26
Role-emotional	−0.65**	0.13	−0.12	−0.34*
Mental health	−0.44**	0.09	−0.18	−0.26
KHQ scales b
General health perception	0.54**	−0.11	−0.06	0.10
Incontinence impact	0.49**	−0.11	−0.17	0.53**
Role limitations	0.58**	−0.01	−0.34*	0.28
Physical limitations	0.46*	0.04	−0.30	0.26
Social limitations	0.55**	0.00	−0.25	0.29
Personal relationship	0.86*	−0.21	0.49	0.93**
Emotional problems	0.54**	−0.04	−0.11	0.28
Sleep and energy disturbances	0.45*	0.21	−0.18	0.20
Symptom severity	0.59**	−0.06	0.06	0.62**
Overactive bladder	0.31	0.28	−0.26	−0.08
Clinical measures
BMI	−0.11	−0.40**	0.25	0.24
Pelvic tone (0 = normal, 1 = not normal)	0.08	0.14	−0.12	−0.15
POP-Q	0.09	0.29	−0.13	0.03
Oxford Grading Scale	0.01	−0.13	0.06	0.11

For POP-Q and the Oxford Grading Scale, Spearman’s rank-sum correlations were computed; all other correlations assessed with Pearson correlations (values >0.50 in bold)

BMI body mass index, POP-Q Pelvic Organ Prolapse Quantification system, QoL quality of life

* p < .05, ** p < .005.

^a Higher scores indicate better QoL

^b KHQ analysis limited to women with urinary incontinence; higher scores indicate worse QoL