Men report good mental health 20 to 23 years after in vitro fertilisation treatment

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Table 5 The study group of 292 men compared to the reference group of 123 age-matched men

	IVF men n = 292		IVF men without children n = 62		IVF men with children n = 230		Reference group from a Swedish age >40 years n = 123
	Mean	Std. deviation	Mean	Std. deviation	Mean	Std. deviation	Mean	Std. deviation	p-value*	p-value w/ or w/o children
Somatisation	0.33	0.59	0.40	0.66	0.31	0.56	0.30	0.34	0.369	0.315
Obsessive-Compulsive	0.39	0.62	0.52	0.67	0.36	0.61	0.38	0.41	0.784	0.097
Interpersonal Sensitivity	0.23	0.52	0.34	0.57	0.20	0.50	0.26	0.34	0.326	0.072
Depression	0.35	0.63	0.55	0.80	0.29	0.57	0.28	0.35	0.048	0.004
Anxiety	0.31	0.57	0.44	0.67	0.28	0.54	0.25	0.29	0.056	0.059
Hostility	0.21	0.42	0.19	0.40	0.13	0.38	0.19	0.25	0.404	0.782
Phobic Anxiety	0.06	0.27	0.13	0.38	0.03	0.23	0.07	0.20	0.511	0.015
Paranoid Ideation	0.25	0.53	0.40	0.61	0.21	0.50	0.27	0.35	0.521	0.010
Psycoticism	0.09	0.32	0.14	0.44	0.08	0.28	0.10	0.16	0.569	0.152
Global Severity Index	0.33	0.38	0.42	0.45	0.31	0.37	0.25	0.25	0.000	0.095
Positive Symptom Distress Index	1.34	0.47	0.41	0.44	0.31	0.35	1.25	0.41	0.003	0.089
Positive Symptom Total^a	19.75	16.69	24.13	18.80	18.56	15.91	18.38	14.22	0.203	0.039

*Comparison of IVF men and reference group
^aUnstandardized score whereas standardized scores were used for the other subscales

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