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Table 3.

Generalized structural equations model analysis showing relationship of socio-demographic and clinical factors with sexual dysfunction among the respondents.

	Desire		Excitement		Erection/lubrication		Orgasm		Orgasmic satisfaction		Overall sexual dysfunction
	Coef. (95% CI)	p -value	Coef. (95% CI)	p -value	Coef. (95% CI)	p -value	Coef. (95% CI)	p -value	Coef. (95% CI)	p -value	Coef. (95% CI)	p -value
Depression^a	0.09 (−0.03, 0.22)	0.138	0.13 (−0.01, 0.26)	0.075	0.19 (0.06, 0.32)	0.003	0.45 (0.19, 0.71)	0.001	0.58 (0.35, 0.81)	0.000	0.30 (0.14, 0.46)	0.000
Anxiety^a	−0.10 (0.23, 0.03)	0.146	−0.10 (−0.22, 0.02)	0.100	−0.10 (−0.21, 0.01)	0.071	0.04 (−0.17, 0.26)	0.689	0.28 (0.09, 0.47)	0.005	0.02 (−0.14, 0.17)	0.834
Stress^a	0.13 (−0.03, 0.29)	0.113	0.07 (−0.10, 0.24)	0.399	0.05 (−0.12, 0.22)	0.549	−0.05 (−0.31, 0.22)	0.727	0.07 (−0.21, 0.34)	0.636	−0.03 (−0.24, 0.18)	0.783
Age^b	0.05 (0.04, 0.06)	0.000	0.04 (0.02, 0.05)	0.000	0.04 (0.03, 0.06)	0.000	0.04 (0.02, 0.06)	0.001	0.04 (0.02, 0.06)	0.000	0.05 (0.03, 0.06)	0.000
Sex^c	0.42 (0.13, 0.71)	0.004	0.94 (0.61, 1.26)	0.000	1.33 (1.03, 1.63)	0.000	2.07 (1.64, 2.50)	0.000	0.83 (0.36, 1.31)	0.001	0.87 (0.51, 1.23)	0.000
Marital status^d	–0.55 (–0.79, –0.32)	0.000	–0.58 (–0.84, –0.32)	0.000	–0.39 (–0.67, –0.12)	0.005	−0.19 (−0.72, 0.33)	0.472	0.00 (−0.58, 0.58)	0.996	−0.28 (−0.61, 0.05)	0.096
Presence of comorbidities^c	0.16 (−0.11, 0.43)	0.244	0.25 (−0.05, 0.55)	0.103	0.53 (0.22, 0.84)	0.001	0.24 (−0.12, 0.59)	0.188	0.32 (−0.08, 0.71)	0.122	0.43 (0.13, 0.73)	0.005
Smoking status^c	0.19 (−0.03, 0.40)	0.094	−0.05 (−0.28, 0.18)	0.679	−0.24 (−0.47, −0.01)	0.040	−0.17 (−0.48, 0.13)	0.267	−0.25 (−0.56, 0.06)	0.120	−0.22 (−0.50, 0.06)	0.120

Coef., coefficient of regression equations; CI, confidence interval.

Probit linkage used for ordinal level of measurement for these variables with assumption of homogeneity of risk. The reference categories for Depression, Anxiety, and Stress are the “Normal” groups.

Age was taken in a continuous scale of measurement assuming Gaussian distribution and using identity linkage.

These variables were measured dichotomously. For sex, “male” was the reference category, while in the case of presence of comorbidities, and smoking status the reference categories were “absence of any comorbidity” and “non-smoker”, respectively.

For marital status, Divorced, Separated, and Widow categories were merged into “previously married” category yielding three nominal level categories, viz., unmarried, currently married, and previously married. For this variable, also uniformity of risk was assumed, and the coefficient was calculated taking the “Unmarried” group as reference.

The bold values indicate statistically significant.