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Table 3 The couples’ assessment of their relationship two–five years after treatment

From: Relationships in couples treated with sperm donation - a national prospective follow-up study

 

Sperm recipients* (n = 98)

Traditional IVF* (n = 122)

Sperm vs. IVF*

 

Woman mean/SD

Man mean/SD

Woman mean/SD

Man mean/SD

Woman p-value

Man p-value

Personality

42.5/5.9

41.8/5.6

41.9/5.8

42.2/8.5

0.523

0.557

Sexual

41.9/6.2

42.8/9.4

41.5/9.2

41.8/10.2

0.366

0.256

Children

39.6/5.1

38.6/6.3

38.4/6.1

37.3/6.6

0.199

0.193

Family

43.1/4.5

43.0/4.8

42.2/5.3

42.6/6.7

0.457

0.478

Egalitarian

40.4/5.6

38.0/6.0

38.4/5.8

36.8/6.7

0.076

0.443

Conception

42.8/5.8

44.0/10.7

42.2/6.0

41.4/6.1

0.544

0.257

Communication

41.9/4.3

42.4/4.3

40.6/5.1

40.2/5.5

0.240

0.029

Conflict

43.2/5.0

42.9/5.3

42.2/4.5

42.2/6.5

0.136

0.240

Financial

39.2/4.6

40.9/4.3

38.5/4.4

40.0/4.2

0.402

0.198

Leisure

38.7/4.0

38.6/4.9

37.8/4.7

37.7/4.2

0.306

0.191

Total

413.2/37.8

413.14/41.1

403.5/41.9

402.1/46.3

0.270

0.203

  1. *Mann–Whitney U-test.