Quality of life and sexual health in men with prostate cancer undergoing radical prostatectomy

Figures & data

Table 1. Demographic data and differences between patients who underwent psychotherapy and no psychotherapy.

	Psychotherapy	No therapy	p Value
Age	70	70.5
Married	N 27	19
DE before surgery	N 22	18
Radiotherapy	N 10	13	.4257
Gleason 2 + 2 2 + 3		1 1
3 + 2		1
3 + 3	14	14
3 + 4	12	7
3 + 6		1
4 + 3	3	1
4 + 4		2
4 + 5	1	1
5 + 4		1
Chemotherapy	N 0	1
Used sexual medication	N 21	9	.0019
Received treatment for UI	N 8	3	.0953
Diabetes	N 2	4
Hypertension	N 18	24
IIEF – mean	13	11.5

Bold value indicate significant difference from the ones who had psychotherapy and used sexual medication.

Figure 1. Patients satisfaction in IIEF-5, with life in general, sexual life, partner and intimacy, with better results in patients who underwent psychotherapy.

Figure 2. SF-36 better results in patients who underwent psychotherapy, excepting two domains: bodily pain and role emotional.

Table 2. Statistical differences between groups.

	Psychotherapy	No therapy	p Value
IIEF-5 mean	13	11.5	.534
ICIQ-Short form	27	19	.440
ICIQ-OAB	22	18	.767
SF-36
Physical functioning	36.33	24.67	.009
Role physical	29.65	31.35	.696
Bodily pain	31.20	29.80	.748
General health perception	33.63	27.3	.158
Energy/vitality	34.48	26.52	.076
Social functioning	29.58	31.42	.622
Role emotional	26.83	34.17	.080
Mental health	34.13	26.87	.106
QAPSSCaP-Naccarato
Satisfaction with partner	27	22	.0818
Satisfaction with intimacy	24	19	.1408
Satisfaction with sexual life	16	13	.4383
Satisfaction with life in general	25	22	.3471
Perception of discomfort	31.53	29.47	.646

Bold value indicate significant difference on physical functioning from the ones who had psychotherapy.

Table 3. Multivariate analysis correlating the questionnaires with the different domains from patients who underwent group psychotherapy.

	Discomfort	Physical functioning	Role physical	Role emotional	Energy/vitality
IIEF-5	−0.397*	0.419*	0.495**	0.467**
	0.030	0.021	0.005	0.009
ICQI-OAB	0.352				−0.360
	0.056				0.050
ICQI-SF	0.647**
	0.000
Discomfort			−0.398*	−0.436*
			0.029	0.016

*Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level.

**Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level.

Table 4. Multivariate analysis correlating the questionnaires with the different domains from patients who did not underwent group psychotherapy.

	Discomfort	General health perception	Social functioning	Role emotional	Energy/vitality
ICQI-OAB	0.407593359		−0.357231855	−0.388007547	−0.38801
	0.025370546		0.05262444	0.052624	0.034115
ICQI-SF	0.693658457
	<0.0001
Discomfort		−0.35936		−0.39132	−0.36706
		0.051134		0.032484	0.046006

Bold value indicate the significance value of correlation between discomfort and ICQI-SF.