Predictors of women’s sexual quality of life during the COVID-19 pandemic: An Iranian cross-sectional study

Figures & data

Table 1. Distribution of socio-demographic variables and results of univariable analysis to determine association of these variable with sexual quality of life (using the S-QoL) as independent variable.

			Pearson correlation coefficient
	Range	Mean (SD)	r	p
Age	18–59 years	36.75 years (7.477)	–0.08	0.07
Spouse age	23–67 years	40.80 years (8.07)	–0.04	0.39
Marriage duration	1–42 years	13.66 years (8.39)	–0.05	0.25
Frequency of monthly sexual intercourse	0–30	5.63 (4.18)	0.26	<0.001
Sexual quality of life score	29–108	89.15 (17.33)	–	–
Fear of COVID-19 score	7–35	20.37 (5.90)	–0.06	0.20
Marital intimacy score	17–119	96.04 (22.99)	0.62	<0.001
Female sexual distress score	0–52	8 (9.11)	–0.61	<0.001
Psychological distress score	10-48	21.09 (7.77)	–0.44	<0.001
		No (%)	S_QOL mean (SD)	ANOVA or t test p value
Education level	Below diploma	46 (8.6)	85.89 16.95)	0.33
	Diploma	124 (23.1)	90.35 (18.07)
	Academic	366 (68.3)	89.16 (17.11)
Education level of spouse	Below diploma	60 (11.2)	86.17 (17.28)	0.30
	Diploma	139 (25.9)	88.73 (18.72)
	Academic	337 (62.9)	89.86 (16.72)
Occupational status	Housewife	286 (53.4)	90.94 (16.82)	0.01
	Employed	250 (46.6)	87.11 (17.71)
Occupational status of spouse	Unemployed	22 (4.1)	87.95 (14.31)	0.93
	Employed	477 (89.0)	89.25 (17.57)
	Retired	37 (6.9)	88.68 (16.45)
Economic status	Poor	43 (8)	86.86 (29.06)	0.64
	Fair	401 (74.8)	89.27 (17.13)
	Good	92 (17.2)	89.80 (17.04)
Separate bedroom	No	44 (8.2)	79.84 (18.09)	<0.001
	Yes	492 (91.8)	89.99 (17.03)
Living arrangement	Living with extended family	66 (12.3)	84.55 (20.10)	0.02
	Independent living condition	470 (87.7)	89.80 (16.83)
Gravid	Nuligravida	80 (14.9)	88.46 (19.81)	0.76
	Primigravida	163 (30.4)	89.96 (17.44)
	Multigravida	293 (54.7)	88.89 (16.57)
Number of living children	0	92 (17.2)	88.78 (19.16)	0.26
	1	180 (33.6)	90.86 (16.91)
	>2	264 (49.3)	88.11 (16.91)
Birth delivery	No delivery	87 (16.2)	88.79 (19.39)	0.97
	Normal vaginal delivery	159 (29.7)	89.35 (16.99)
	Caesarian section	287 (53.5)	89.14 (16.94)
Contraception method	No contraception	41 (7.7)	84.70 (20.42)	0.47
	Withdrawal	258 (48.1)	88.77 (17.71)
	Condom	128 (23.9)	90.48 (15.74)
	Sterilization	44 (8.2)	91.75 (16.45)
	Intrauterine device	43 (8.0)	89.70 (16.68)
	Hormonal	22 (4.1)	86.86 (18.46)
COVID-19 status	Uninfected	210 (39.2)	88.50 (16.45)	0.92
	Infected and cured	59 (11.0)	89.31 (18.76)
	Infected and in treatment	59 (11.0)	89.64 (17.66)
	Suspected infection	208 (38.8)	89.63 (17.78)

Table 2. Results of multivariable linear regression model considering sexual quality of life (S-QoL) as dependent variable.

	Unstandardized coefficients		Standardized coefficients	Sig.	95.0% Confidence interval for B		Collinearity statistics
	B	Standard error	Beta		Lower bound	Upper bound	Tolerance	VIF
Dependent living condition	47.66	2.70	0.49	<0.001	42.362	52.957	0.206	4.854
Psychological distress	–1.69	0.13	–0.42	<0.001	1.431	1.943	0.153	6.533
Monthly sex (number per month)	2.61	0.26	0.20	<0.001	2.094	3.118	0.393	2.544
FSD	–1.02	0.14	–0.14	<0.001	–1.308	–0.741	0.429	2.328
Model Summary	R = 0.957, R Square = 0.915, Adjusted R Square = 0.915, Durbin–Watson = 1.844

Data availability

Dataset is shared via Mendeley data repository system with DOI: 10.17632/mvm7wrgv7m.1