Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Waller, Kathleen G.
• Shaw, Robert W.

Titel

Endometriosis, pelvic pain, and psychological functioning

Ist Teil von

• Fertility and sterility, 1995-04, Vol.63 (4), p.796-800

Ort / Verlag

New York, NY: Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

1995

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• To investigate whether there are psychological differences between women with symptomatic as opposed to asymptomatic mild endometriosis. Forty-nine women with minimal or mild endometriosis completed the Beck Depression Inventory, the Speilberger State-Trait analysis, and the Golombok Rust Inventory of Sexual Satisfaction. Women admitted for sterilization acted as normal controls and women complaining of pelvic pain with no organic pathology were studied also. Tertiary referral centers for endometriosis. Women with pelvic pain symptoms, whether they had mild endometriosis or a normal pelvis, had similar scores for the Beck Depression Inventory. These scores were significantly higher than those of women with asymptomatic disease and normal women admitted for sterilization. Women with mild endometriosis should not be included as a control group when studies on pelvic pain are planned.