Table 2 Summary of sensitivity analysis on the variables related to the sexual quality of life

    Yuksekol et al.;2021 [36]

0.37

0.11 to 0.58

0.006

92.1%

    Haghi et al.;2018 [32]

0.42

0.15 to 0.63

0.003

93.1%

    Tav et al.;2018 [29]

0.36

0.11 to 0.56

0.005

90.7%

    Telli et al.;2020 [23]

0.39

0.11 to 0.60

0.005

93.0%

    Alcalde et al.;2021 [35]

0.49

0.37 to 0.59

< 0.001

78.1%

    All studies (without removing any study)

0.41

0.20 to 0.58

0.000

91.0%

    Eftekhar et al.;2019 [22]

0.50

0.23 to 0.69

0.0006

90.8%

    Taskin Yilmaz et al.;2019 [30]

0.40

−0.16 to 0.76

0.160

96.1%

    Yuksekol et al.;2021 [36]

0.26

−0.004 to 0.49

0.053

89.4%

    All studies (without removing any study)

0.39

0.08 to 0.63

0.015

92.2%

Eftekhar et al.;2019 [22]

0.43

0.25 to 0.56

< 0.0001

90.9%

Shahraki et al.;2018 [31]

0.40

0.36 to 0.52

< 0.0001

79.4%

Haghi et al.;2018 [32]

0.48

0.43 to 0.60

< 0.0001

91.7%

Panahi et al.;2021 [34]

0.50

0.37 to 0.62

< 0.0001

85.5%

All studies (without removing any study)

0.45

0.32 to 0.58

< 0.0001

85.5%

Tugut et al.;2021 [28]

−0.50

−0.569 to − 0.44

< 0.0001

31.3%

Velayati et al.;2021 [33]

−0.52

− 0.59 to − 0.45

<  0.0001

3.8%

Shahraki et al.;2018 [31]

− 0.52

− 0.60 to − 0.43

<  0.0001

25.9%

Brunault et al.;2015 [24]

− 0.48

− 0.54 to − 0.42

<  0.0001

0.0%

All studies (without removing any study)

− 0.51

− 0.56 to − 0.46

0.40

0.0%

Eftekhar et al.;2019 [22]

0.25

− 0.43 to 0.57

< 0.01

99%

Yuksekol et al.;2021 [36]

0.31

−0.22 to 0.69

< 0.01

86%

Shahraki et al.;2018 [31]

0.29

−0.38 to 0.77

< 0.01

99%

Turkben Polat and Kaplan et al.;2021 [26]

0.30

−0.37 to 0.77

< 0.01

99%

Samimian et al.; 2016

0.36

−0.26 to 0.77

< 0.01

99%

Panahi et al.;2021 [34]

0.27

−0.41 to 0.76

< 0.01

99%

All studies (without removing any study)

0.24

−0.33 to 0.68

< 0.01

99%