183 Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on infertility and endometriosis patients 8 Table 5. The fertility related quality of life as reported in the core FertiQoL outcome and the subscales. Fertility patients mean (SD) Reference population* mean (SD) Mean Difference (95% CI) Core FertiQoL 58.6 (14.8) 70.8 (13.9) 12.2 (10.2 – 14.2) Social subscale 63.3 (17.8) 74.0 (16.6) 10.7 (8.3 – 13.1) Relational subscale 71.6 (17.1) 78.2 (14.5) 6.6 (4.4 – 8.8) Emotional subscale 45.4 (20.2) 59.8 (18.7) 14.4 (11.7 – 17.1) Mind–body subscale 54.0 (20.1) 70.8 (19.5) 16.8 (13.9–19.6) A total of 318 out of 330 patients completed the FertiQoL questionnaire. The reference population consisted of 473 patients.* Aarts et al, 2011 Subgroup analysis showed that increasing female age was associated with a lower relational score (P = 0.005) and primary infertility was associated with a higher score on the mind–body and relational domains (P < 0.001). Patient centeredness of endometriosis care Figure 4 demonstrates the patient-centeredness scores for endometriosis participants (n = 45) measured using the ECQ. As a reference, the patient-centeredness scores from 177 patients reported by Schreurs and colleagues (Schreurs et al., 2020) were added to the figure as a comparison with the pre-COVID-19 situation. The patient-centeredness of endometriosis care during the COVID-19 pandemic seems comparable to that of the reference population that was used. Figure 4. Patient-centeredness scores (PCS) by dimension, as measured by the ENDOCARE questionnaire. A total of 45 out of 181 endometriosis patients completed the ENDOCARE questionnaire. The reference population consisted of 177 patients. * Schreurs et al, 2020. IQR, interquartile range.
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