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The influence of marital intimacy on urinary and sexual symptom experience among patients with prostate cancer: a cross-sectional study.
- Source :
- Contemporary Nurse: A Journal for the Australian Nursing Profession; Apr2018, Vol. 54 Issue 2, p171-181, 12p
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Background: Little is known about the influence of how patients with prostate cancer perceive emotional support from their spouses on their treatment-related symptoms. Aims: To explore the influence of marital intimacy on urinary and sexual symptoms. Methods: The research participants were 42 men diagnosed with prostate cancer recruited from a convenience sample from a university hospital in South Korea. The Expanded Prostate Cancer Index Composite, the Korean Marital Intimacy Scale, and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale were used to measure variables of interest. Results: In the hierarchical multiple regression analysis, higher marital intimacy was associated with more favorable symptom in the urinary domain. In the sexual domain, none of the models were significant, and no influence was found for marital intimacy. Conclusions: Marital intimacy, measured as perceived emotional support from spouses, was found to positively influence only the experience of urinary symptoms among South Korean men with prostate cancer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ALEXITHYMIA
ANALYSIS of variance
STATISTICAL correlation
MALE reproductive organ diseases
INTIMACY (Psychology)
MARRIAGE
PROSTATE tumors
PSYCHOLOGICAL tests
RESEARCH funding
STATISTICAL sampling
T-test (Statistics)
URINARY incontinence
STATISTICAL power analysis
SEXUAL dysfunction
MULTIPLE regression analysis
SOCIAL support
CROSS-sectional method
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
SYMPTOMS
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10376178
- Volume :
- 54
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Contemporary Nurse: A Journal for the Australian Nursing Profession
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 130946025
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10376178.2018.1462092