Table 3 The couples’ assessment of their relationship two to five years after 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 | |||
Personality | 42.7/5.5 | 41.7/5.6 | 41.9/5.8 | 42.2/8.5 | 0.479 | 0.554 |
Sexual | 42.0/5.8 | 418/5.4 | 41.5/9.2 | 41.8/10.2 | 0.272 | 0.511 |
Children | 41.2/7.6 | 38.6/6.2 | 38.4/6.1 | 37.3/6.6 | 0.042 | 0.196 |
Family | 42.8/4.9 | 41.5/4.1 | 42.2/5.3 | 42.6/6.7 | 0.658 | 0.181 |
Egalitarian | 39.3/5.2 | 38.4/6.3 | 38.4/5.8 | 36.8/6.7 | 0.327 | 0.220 |
Conception | 44.4/9.4 | 42.5/6.0 | 42.2/6.0 | 41.4/6.1 | 0.256 | 0.282 |
Communication | 42.0/5.3 | 42.0/5.1 | 40.6/5.1 | 40.2/5.5 | 0.122 | 0.049 |
Conflict | 44.2/4.6 | 42.2/5.5 | 42.2/4.5 | 42.2/6.5 | 0.019 | 0.616 |
Financial | 40.1/3.8 | 39.8/3.8 | 38.5/4.4 | 40.0/4.2 | 0.033 | 0.510 |
Leisure | 39.6/4.7 | 38.6/4.8 | 37.8/4.7 | 37.7/4.2 | 0.017 | 0.170 |
Total | 418.3/37.0 | 407.1/41.4 | 403.5/41.9 | 402.1/46.3 | 0.050 | 0.468 |