The Relation of Diabetes Type 2 with Sexual Function among Reproductive Age Women in Iran, a Case-Control Study

Table 1

The sociodemographic characteristics of participants in two groups of diabetic and healthy women.

Variables	Diabetic	Normal	value
	Mean ± SD or (%)
Age (y)	43.3 ± 10.7	37.9 ± 7.7	<0.001
Spouse’s age (y)	48.6 ± 12.3	45.5 ± 10.2	0.083
Number of children	1.91 ± 2.5	2.24 ± 2.4	0.32
Job
Employee	14 (13.2)	38 (29.7)	0.003
Housewife	92 (86.8)	90 (70.3)
Education
Primary	25 (23.6)	11 (8.6)	0.001
High school	28 (26.5)	22 (17.2)
Diploma	38 (35.8)	54 (42.2)
University	15 (14.2)	41 (32)
Women who were the only wife of their husband	99 (93.4)	120 (93.6)	0.91
Women whose husbands had another wife	7 (6.6)	8 (6.3)
Place of living
Rural	9 (8.5)	6 (4.7)	0.23
City	97 (91.5)	122 (95.3)
Economic situation
Good	40 (37.7)	61 (48)	0.18
Moderate	49 (46.2)	56 (44.1)
Weak	17 (16)	10 (7.9)

For the continuous variables the independent -test was used, while, for the categorical data, the chi-square test was used.