Table 3 Sexual importance and activity by gender and cancer classification for People with Cancer (PWC)
From: Feeling well and talking about sex: psycho-social predictors of sexual functioning after cancer
| Women | Men | Test for group difference | Sexual cancer | Non-sexual cancer | Test for group difference | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Item/Variable | n | % | n | % | χ2 | p | φ | n | % | N | % | χ2 | p | φ |
| Sex important part of the relationship: | 13.17 | 0.001 | 0.158 | 2.715 | 0.257 | 0.072 | ||||||||
| Very important | 148 | 34.3 | 45 | 48.4 | 162 | 35.7 | 30 | 46.2 | ||||||
| Somewhat important | 224 | 51.9 | 46 | 49.5 | 238 | 52.4 | 28 | 43.1 | ||||||
| Not important | 60 | 13.9 | 2 | 2.2 | 54 | 11.9 | 7 | 10.8 | ||||||
| Sex important part of life: | 39.59 | <0.001 | 0.248 | 9.965 | 0.007 | 0.125 | ||||||||
| Very important | 125 | 23.7 | 57 | 48.7 | 146 | 26.2 | 35 | 42.7 | ||||||
| Somewhat important | 288 | 54.5 | 56 | 47.9 | 304 | 54.6 | 37 | 45.1 | ||||||
| Not important | 115 | 21.8 | 4 | 3.4 | 107 | 19.2 | 10 | 12.2 | ||||||
| Change in sexual activities since onset of cancer: | 3.417 | 0.065 | 0.074 | 2.951 | 0.086 | 0.069 | ||||||||
| Yes | 394 | 76.8 | 99 | 84.6 | 432 | 79.1 | 55 | 70.5 | ||||||
| No | 119 | 23.2 | 18 | 15.4 | 114 | 20.9 | 23 | 29.5 | ||||||