Marital and sexual satisfaction in testicular cancer survivors and their spouses |
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Authors: | Marrit?A.?Tuinman,Joke?Fleer,Dirk?Th.?Sleijfer,Harald?J.?Hoekstra,Josette?E.?H.?M.?Hoekstra-Weebers author-information" > author-information__contact u-icon-before" > mailto:j.hoekstra-weebers@ikn.nl" title=" j.hoekstra-weebers@ikn.nl" itemprop=" email" data-track=" click" data-track-action=" Email author" data-track-label=" " >Email author |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Surgical Oncology, University Medical Centre Groningen, PO Box 30.001, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands;(2) Department of Medical Oncology, University Medical Centre Groningen, The Netherlands;(3) Department of Health Psychology, University Medical Centre Groningen, The Netherlands;(4) Comprehensive Cancer Centre Northern Netherlands, PO Box 330, 9700 AH Groningen, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | Goal To compare marital and sexual satisfaction of men who survived testicular cancer (TC) and their spouses to a reference group, and to compare marital and sexual satisfaction of couples who had a relationship at time of diagnosis (couples during TC) to couples who developed a relationship after completion of treatment (couples after TC).Patients and methods Two hundred and nineteen couples during TC and 40 couples after TC completed the Maudsley Marital Questionnaire, a validated instrument to measure marital and sexual satisfaction.Results Survivors and spouses of both couple groups reported similar marital satisfaction as men and women of the reference group. Survivors (t=2.9, p<0.01) and spouses (t=2.9, p<0.01) of couples during TC and survivors of couples after TC (t=1.9, p=0.05) reported less sexual satisfaction than the reference groups. Survivors of couples after TC reported less sexual satisfaction than survivors of couples during TC (F=4.0, p<0.05). Correlations between sexual satisfaction of survivors and spouses in couples during TC (r=0.76, p<0.001) and couples after TC (r=0.77, p<0.001) were high.Conclusion Testicular cancer did not appear to have a negative effect on marital satisfaction in couples during TC, although TC survivors and their spouses reported less sexual satisfaction than men and women of the reference group. Survivors who developed a relationship after completion of treatment seemed to form a vulnerable group: their sexual satisfaction was lower than that of men in the reference group and of TC survivors with a longer relationship. Besides that, they more often reported marital problems than their spouses did. |
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Keywords: | Cancer Testicular cancer Spouse Marital satisfaction Sexual satisfaction |
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