Table 3.
Factors associated with sexual dysfunction in drug-naïve patients with psychosis - bivariate and multivariate statistics
| Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics | Sexual dysfunction |
Bi-variate statistics |
Multivariate statistics$ (Adjusted for age) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present (n=17) | Absent (n=83) | df | t/χ2 | P | Odds ratio (CI) | P | |
| Age in years (sd) | 35.18 (8.23) | 30.25 (8.27) | 98 | -2.24 | 0.028* | - | - |
| Marital status | |||||||
| Single | 5 | 53 | 1 | 6.87 | 0.009*# | 0.31 (0.07-1.31) | 0.112 |
| Ever married | 12 | 30 | |||||
| Financial debt | |||||||
| Yes | 15 | 54 | 1 | 3.54 | 0.084*# | 0.16* (0.03-0.81) | 0.027* |
| No | 2 | 29 | |||||
| Number of sexual partners | 0.94 (0.9) | 0.45 (0.67) | 98 | -2.62 | 0.01* | - | - |
| Age of onset in years (sd) | 33.47 (8.38) | 27.2 (7.01) | 98 | -3.25 | 0.002* | 1.20 (0.99-1.46) | 0.062 |
| PANSS - positive score (sd) | 24.29 (6.05) | 24.88 (6.84) | 98 | 0.33 | 0.744 | - | - |
| PANSS - negative score (sd) | 27.06 (7.4) | 28.81 (7.14) | 98 | 0.92 | 0.363 | - | - |
| PANSS - general psychopathology score (sd) | 55.59 (10.33) | 53.59 (10.14) | 98 | 0.74 | 0.462 | - | - |
| PANSS - depression/anxiety factor (sd) | 11.24 (4.48) | 8.99 (4.02) | 98 | -2.06 | 0.042* | 1.17 (1.02-1.34) | 0.022* |
| PANSS - total score (sd) | 106.94 (20.03) | 107.28 (19.34) | 98 | -0.07 | 0.948 | - | - |
PANSS – Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale; t=t value on Independent t-test; χ2=Pearson Chi-Square value; df – Degree of freedom. The following variables were not significantly related to the presence of sexual dysfunction: years of schooling, place of residence, number of people living in the household, separate bedroom, substance use, duration of illness, serum testosterone level and BMI. $Logistic regression adjusted for age. #Fisher’s exact test P. *P<0.05