کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
3953613 1600373 2011 4 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Psychosexual correlates of persistent postsurgical pain in patients with vulvodynia
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی زنان، زایمان و بهداشت زنان
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Psychosexual correlates of persistent postsurgical pain in patients with vulvodynia
چکیده انگلیسی

ObjectiveTo examine long-term reports of pain and psychologic correlates of pain in women after vestibulectomy.MethodsIn a retrospective cross-sectional exploratory study, 37 women who had undergone vestibulectomy between January 1989 and January 2008 completed questionnaires assessing demographic information, self-reported levels of pain, anxiety, somatization, psychologic distress, and sexual function.ResultsEight women reported being completely pain free after surgery. The remaining 29 women reported various levels of pain during intercourse (as measured by the Gracely pain scale) and decreased sexual function (as measured by a sexual functioning questionnaire). Various measures of psychologic distress were associated with average intercourse-related pain, including brief symptom inventory (P = 0.002), Pennebaker inventory of limbic languidness (P = 0.002), perceived stress scale (P = 0.04), and Spielberger trait–anxiety inventory (P = 0.01). These same measures of psychological distress were similarly associated with general, unprovoked vaginal pain.ConclusionThe present data suggest that the pathophysiology of localized vulvodynia may be more complex in some women, leading to a suboptimal response to surgical treatment.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics - Volume 113, Issue 3, June 2011, Pages 225–228
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