The social comparison variables included the extent to which self-help group resources were used, and whether reading about other members' experiences induced positive or negative feelings.
The operational comparison variables are the highest water level (WL) and the absolute difference between the final WL and target WL of a pumping front-pool.
We used given name, surname, address, street number, sex and suburb as comparison variables for matching.
Similar comparison variables were created for 39, 40, and 41 weeks of gestation.
For the comparison variables, it was used post hoc, as they were homogeneous and the distribution was normal.
The online questionnaire included all the items from our new measure, plus several items for comparison (variables that in theory should correlate with sexual function (see Table 1).
To demonstrate the characteristics of the global functional scale, we used a number of comparison variables, based on the disablement process model [ 5, 10].
For the comparison of variables with a normal distribution, a t test was used.
Comparison of variables between male and female patients was performed with the two-sample t test.
Mann-Whitney test was used for comparison of variables with non-normal distribution.
