Research Article
What Effects Can Expressive Writing Have on Sexual Dysfunction in Women with Multiple Sclerosis? A Randomized Controlled Trial
Table 5
The differences in sexual dysfunction’s score in women with MS in A2 and B2 subgroups compared to pre-test.
| | Sexual dysfunction levels | Follow up | Group | Control
(A2) | Intervention
(B2) | Mann–Whitney |
(min-max) |
(min-max) | value |
| | Primary sexual dysfunction | Δscore (follow1- follow0) |
(-8.00–2.00) |
(-2.00–4.00) |
| | ΔScore (follow2- follow0) |
(-6.00–5.00) |
(-8.00–0.00) |
| | ΔScore (follow3- follow0) |
(-6.00–5.00) |
(-8.00–1.00) |
| | Fridman | value |
|
| — | | Secondary sexual dysfunction | ΔScore (follow1- follow0) |
(-6.00–9.00) |
(-7.00–9.00) |
| | ΔScore (follow2- follow0) |
(-17.00–17.00) |
(-19.00–7.00) |
| | ΔScore (follow3- follow0) |
(-18.00–17.00) |
(-17.00–9.00) |
| | Fridman | value |
|
| — | | Tertiary sexual dysfunction | ΔScore (follow1- follow0) |
(-6.00–6.00) |
(-16.00–-1.00) |
| | ΔScore (follow2- follow0) |
(-12.00–15.00) |
(-16.00–0.00) |
| | ΔScore (follow3- follow0) |
(-10.00–10.00) |
(-14.00–2.00) |
| | Fridman | P-value | P = 0.72
Chi2= 0.63 | P = 0.02
Chi2= 7.14 | — | | Overal sexual dysfunction | ΔScore (follow1- follow0) | 0.22 ± 5.61
(-14.00 – 18.00) | -10.86 ± 7.63
(-29.00 – 4.00) | P ≤0.001
Z = -4.96 | | ΔScore (follow2- follow0) | -0.41 ± 14.70
(-32.00–31.00) | -12.89 ± 10.24
(-42.00–6.00) | P =0.001
| | ΔScore (follow3- follow0) |
(-31.00–22.00) |
(-38.00–9.00) |
| | Fridman | P value |
|
| — |
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