Interrelationships among endometriosis-related pain symptoms and their effects on health-related quality of life: a sectional observational study
Objective To assess the correlation between different pain symptoms and different domains of women's health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Methods Seventy-seven women with deep infiltrating endometriosis were successively enrolled between June 2011 and August 2013 while being prepared to unde...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Obstetrics & gynecology science 2018-09, Vol.61 (5), p.605 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Objective
To assess the correlation between different pain symptoms and different domains of women's health-related quality of life (HRQoL).
Methods
Seventy-seven women with deep infiltrating endometriosis were successively enrolled between June 2011 and August 2013 while being prepared to undergo laparoscopy due to pain and/or infertility. We quantified the intensities of dysmenorrhea, deep dyspareunia, chronic pelvic pain, and dyschezia (menstrual and non-menstrual) using a 11-point visual analog scale (VAS: 0-10) and the validated full versions of the Short Form 36 (SF36) and Endometriosis Health Profile (EHP30) questionnaires to assess HRQoL. The pain symptoms were considered simultaneously in a hierarchical agglomerative clustering method (exploratory multivariate approach) and the associations among scores were tested by bivariate correlation.
Results
Dysmenorrhea showed the lowest similarity on to the multivariate cluster analysis and no statistically significant correlation with the other pain symptoms: deep dyspareunia (P=0.244), chronic pelvic pain (P=0.108), menstrual dyschezia (P=0.238), and non-menstrual dyschezia (P=0.380). Dysmenorrhea and chronic pelvic pain were the main symptoms correlated with all domains of the SF36 and the EHP30 (core instrument) questionnaires (P |
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ISSN: | 2287-8572 |