Quality of life of women with chronic pelvic pain / Qualidade de vida de mulheres com dor pélvica crônica

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2010

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OBJECTIVES: to compare the quality of life (QOL) of women who have or do not have chronic pelvic pain (CPP) and to investigate the factors associated with QOL in women with CPP. METHODS: a cross-sectional study was performed, in which 30 women with CPP and 20 women without CPP were included. They were premenopausal women aged 18 to 50 years attending the gynecologic outpatient department of a tertiary care university hospital (Hospital das Clínicas, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil). A CPP case was considered when presenting with recurrent or constant pelvic pain of at least six months` duration, unrelated to periods. Women who had been pregnant in the previous year or who had a history of malignant disease were excluded. Sociodemographic and clinical features were assessed. The Medical Outcomes Study 36-item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) questionnaire was used to investigate QOL. It provides an eight-scale profile of scores: physical functioning, role-physical, bodily pain, general health, vitality, social functioning, role-emotional and mental health. These eight domains can be summed up in two summary measures: physical component summary (PCS) and mental component summary (MCS). Pain intensity was evaluated using a mechanical visual analogue scale (VAS). Multiple regression analyses was used to compare QOL scores between women with and without CPP and to identify the factors associated with QOL in women with CPP. RESULTS: the mean age of women with and without CPP was 35.27.5 and 369.3 years, respectively (p=0.77). Women with CPP had a lower monthly family income (p=0.04) and a higher prevalence of dysmenorrhea (87% versus 40%; p<0.01) and depression (30% versus 5%; p=0.04) compared to those without CPP. After adjusting the analyses using potential confounding variables, women with CPP had lower QOL scores in two domains: bodily pain (31 versus 72; p<0.01) and social functioning (56.3 versus 100; p<0.01). Depression was negatively associated with the role-emotional domain (coefficient: -65.185; CI 95% -130.25 to -0.12; p=0.05) and the MCS (coefficient: -23.271; CI 95% -43.8 to -2.74; p=0.03), whereas pain intensity was negatively associated with the bodily pain domain (coefficient: -8.826; CI 95% -13.98 to -3.66; p<0.01) of the QOL of women with CPP. CONCLUSIONS: women with CPP had poorer QOL compared to those without CPP. Depression in women with CPP was associated with lower QOL. Greater pain intensity, as assessed by the mechanical VAS, was also associated with lower QOL among women with CPP. These factors should be considered when managing CPP patients in an attempt to minimize the negative effects they may exert on QOL.

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4. medição da dor ciencias da saude 3. qualidade de vida 3. quality of life 1. depressão 1. depression 2. dor pélvica crônica 1. depressão-mulheres 2. dor pélvica crônica 3. qualidade de vida 4. medição da dor 2. chronic pelvic pain 5. pain measurement

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