Table 2 The couples’ assessment of their relationship at acceptance for infertility treatment
From: Relationships in oocyte recipient couples – a Swedish national prospective follow-up study
Oocyte recipients | Traditional IVF | Oocyte vs. IVF* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Woman | Man | Woman | Man | Woman | Man | |
Mean/SD | Mean/SD | Mean/SD | Mean/SD | p-value | p-value | |
Personality | 44.1/4.9 | 42.4/4.5 | 43.4/4.6 | 41.7/5.1 | 0.112 | 0.379 |
Sexual | 43.1/3.5 | 42.9/3.3 | 43.2/3.3 | 43.0/3.6 | 0.325 | 0.145 |
Children | 45.1/3.1 | 44.4/3.3 | 43.8/3.9 | 43.7/3.4 | 0.038 | 0.095 |
Family | 44.4/4.3 | 43.6/4.4 | 44.5/3.6 | 43.2/5.1 | 0.287 | 0.952 |
Egalitarian | 40.8/3.8 | 41.2/3.6 | 40.5/3.6 | 41.1/3.6 | 0.538 | 0.189 |
Conception | 40.6/3.3 | 39.4/3.3 | 39.9/3.5 | 39.1/4.0 | 0.932 | 0.575 |
Communication | 44.0/4.6 | 43.6/4.5 | 43.4/4.8 | 42.5/5.1 | 0.005 | 0.090 |
Conflict | 41.9/4.9 | 40.7/4.5 | 40.4/5.4 | 39.3/5.9 | 0.892 | 0.708 |
Financial | 43.2/4.3 | 42.4/4.1 | 42.9/4.0 | 42.2/4.6 | 0.373 | 0.841 |
Leisure | 40.8/5.4 | 39.0/5.3 | 40.6/4.5 | 38.1/5.7 | 0.029 | 0.450 |
Total | 428.1/31.2 | 419.5/29.8 | 422.4/28.0 | 413.9/33.4 | 0.059 | 0.199 |