Study of Marital Satisfaction in Women with a History of Genital Cancers Referred to Selected Centres in Tehran, 2019-2020

BACKGROUND

We wanted to investigate marital satisfaction in women with gynaecological cancers referred to selected medical centres in Tehran in 2019.

METHODS

125 women with genital cancer who were referred to selected treatment centres in Tehran were included in the study. Data was collected using ENRICH marital satisfaction demographic questionnaire and analysed using descriptive statistics, SPSS version 22 software.

RESULTS

The three groups of women with gynaecological cancers did not differed in terms of average marital satisfaction score. Adjusted results based on the covariance analysis test also showed that the difference in the mean score of marital satisfaction in women with genital cancer was not statistically significant at 95 % confidence level. The variance analysis did not significantly differ between the mean score of the components of marital satisfaction and the total marital satisfaction score in women with genital cancer (p ˃ 0.05). The Pearson correlation coefficient test also did not show a significant relationship between total marital satisfaction and demographic characteristics in women with uterine and ovarian cancers. The results of Pearson's correlation coefficient in the group of women with cervical cancer showed a statistically significant relationship between total marital satisfactions with age at marriage.

CONCLUSIONS

This study in addition to determining marital satisfaction and its components in women with genital cancers, expands the scope of midwifery science in this field, and can also be used as a basis for further intervention studies.