Table 2 The couples’ assessment of their relationship at acceptance for infertility treatment
From: Relationships in couples treated with sperm donation - a national prospective follow-up study
Sperm recipients* (n = 208) | Traditional IVF* (n = 238) | Sperm vs. IVF* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Woman mean/SD | Man mean/SD | Woman mean/SD | Man mean/SD | Woman p-value | Man p-value | |
Personality | 43.8/4.3 | 42.2/5.0 | 43.4/4.6 | 41.7/5.1 | 0.641 | 0.413 |
Sexual | 43.2/3.2 | 43.6/6.2 | 43.2/3.3 | 43.0/3.6 | 0.473 | 0.318 |
Children | 44.1/3.0 | 43.6/3.6 | 43.8/3.9 | 43.7/3.4 | 0.651 | 0.452 |
Family | 44.0/4.0 | 43.1/4.2 | 44.5/3.9 | 43.2/5.1 | 0.783 | 0.943 |
Egalitarian | 40.7/3.6 | 41.4/3.4 | 40.5/3.6 | 41.1/3.6 | 0.642 | 0.071 |
Conception | 40.4/3.2 | 40.0/3.5 | 39.9/3.5 | 39.1/4.0 | 0.919 | 0.769 |
Communication | 43.7/4.9 | 43.3/4.7 | 43.4/4.8 | 42.5/5.1 | 0.781 | 0.907 |
Conflict | 41.0/4.0 | 40.0/5.0 | 40.4/5.4 | 39.3/5.9 | 0.366 | 0.546 |
Financial | 43.0/4.1 | 42.4/4.3 | 42.9/4.0 | 42.2/4.6 | 0.613 | 0.535 |
Leisure | 40.9/4.7 | 39.4/5.3 | 40.6/4.5 | 38.1/5.7 | 0.170 | 0.026 |
Total | 424.9/24.7 | 419.1/30.22 | 422.4/28.0 | 413.9/33.4 | 0.713 | 0.287 |