O-168 Chronic pelvic pain is the most troublesome endometriosis pain symptom for women ’s quality of life

AbstractStudy questionWhich pre-operative endometriosis pain symptom is most troublesome for the quality-of-life of women assessed at different meta-levels?Summary answerOf five pain symptoms chronic pelvic pain is most troublesome or has the strongest correlation to women ’s overall quality-of-life and overall and endometriosis-specific health status.What is known alreadyEndometriosis affects women ’s quality of life negatively, and its impact seems to depend more on women’s symptoms than on their degree of endometriosis. Experts proposed to include ‘the most troublesome symptom’ and ‘overall pain’ as core outcomes but did not define how to assess these outcomes. It would be intere sting to find out which pain symptom (i.e. assessed for presence and intensity) has most impact on women’s quality-of-life assessed at different meta-levels, including: overall quality-of-life (depending on amongst others one’s professional and relational life besides health), general health sta tus and endometriosis-specific health status.Study design, size, durationA prospective survey addressed 277 adult women scheduled for diagnostic and/or therapeutic surgery in a University endometriosis clinic between October 2016 and November 2019. Women were reminded twice of our request to fill out the coded but anonymous questionnaire package assessing five pain symptoms (i.e. chronic pelvic pain, dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia, dysuria and dyschezia) and assessing quality-of-life at three ...
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