Table 4.

Factors independently associated with worse sexual quality of life using minimization of Akaike information criterion^∗

Variable	β coefficient† (95% CI)	P value
Deep dyspareunia severity (0–10)‡	4.50 (3.55–5.45)	<.0001
Superficial dyspareunia severity (0–10)‡	1.92 (1.05–2.78)	<.0001
Depression (PHQ-9) score (0–27)‡	0.86 (0.42–1.30)	.00015
Pain Catastrophizing Scale score (0–52)‡	0.22 (0.01–0.43)	.043
Bladder pain syndrome diagnosis (yes)§	5.69 (0.75–10.64)	.024
Sexual orientation (heterosexual)‖	19.95 (8.16–31.74)	.00098
Referral type (rereferral)¶	−7.34 (−13.58 to −1.09)	.022

PHQ = Patient Health Questionnaire.

^∗277 informative observations for all considered variables.

^†β Coefficient from regression model.

^‡Continuous variable.

^§Binary variable (yes vs no [reference]).

^‖Binary variable (heterosexual vs other sexual orientation [reference]).

^¶Binary variable (rereferral vs new referral [reference]).