ArticleBMC women's health2020
Clinical aspects and the quality of life among women with endometriosis and infertility: a cross-sectional study.
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- The impact of endometriosis on depressive and anxiety symptoms and quality of life: a systematic review.Frontiers in public health · 2023Pooled it
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- The impact of preimplantation genetic testing on the quality of life of people undergoing assisted reproduction treatment.Scientific reports · 2026Observational
- The Role of Catastrophizing in Enhancing Pain Interference and Depressive Symptoms in Endometriosis: A Longitudinal Examination.European journal of pain (London, England) · 2026Article
- Anti‑inflammatory and anti‑migratory properties of wild‑grape‑derived ε‑viniferin in human endometrial cells: A potential therapy for endometriosis.Molecular medicine reports · 2025Article
- Quality of Life in Women with Endometriosis: The Importance of Socio-Demographic, Diagnostic-Therapeutic, and Psychological Factors.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Assessment of Endometriosis Knowledge and Its Determinants Among Nurses in Al-Jouf Region, Saudi Arabia.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Precision surgery for endometriosis: preventing chronic pelvic pain in patients with higher pre-operative pain scores and in patients of advanced age.Archives of gynecology and obstetrics · 2025Article
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- Investigating Unhealthy Behaviors Associated with SF-36 Domains in Women with Endometriosis-Findings from a Web-Based Survey Data Set.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- A thematic synthesis of qualitative studies and surveys of the psychological experience of painful endometriosis.BMC women's health · 2024Article
- It is time to change the definition: Endometriosis is no longer a pelvic disease.Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2024Article
- Clinical factors associated with quality of life among women with endometriosis: a cross-sectional study.BMC women's health · 2023Article
- Quality of life and clinical factors in women with endometriosis, the role of dienogest vs EE/dienogest over time: a single-center study.Archives of gynecology and obstetrics · 2023Observational
- The Association Between Endometriosis Treatments and Depression and/or Anxiety in a Population-Based Pathologically Confirmed Cohort of People with Endometriosis.Women's health reports (New Rochelle, N.Y.) · 2023Article
- Comparing the quality of life of endometriotic patients' before and after treatment with normal and infertile patients based on the EHP30 questionnaire.BMC women's health · 2022Article
- Investigating different dimensions of infertile women's quality of life: a descriptive cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe quality of life (QoL) of patients with endometriosis and infertility was assessed in different stages and correlated with the clinical features of the cases.
methodsThe present study was a cross-sectional study; 106 women were included, divided in two endometriosis groups (Grade I/II, 26 women, and Grade II/IV, 74 women). All participants attended the Endometriosis and Infertility Outpatient Clinic of the Instituto Ideia Fértil de Saúde Reprodutiva, Faculdade de Medicina do ABC, São Paulo, Brazil, were and responded to the Short Form (SF) Health Survey-36. Convenience sampling was used due to the authors' access to the study population; however, the sample number was calculated to be sufficient for 95% power in both groups.
resultsHomogeneity was observed between Grade I/II and Grade III/IV staging, with similar mean ages (35.27, ±3.64 years and 34.04, ±3.39 years, respectively, p = 0.133); types of infertility (p = 0.535); infertility time (p = 0.654); degrees of pain (p = 0.849); and symptoms common to endometriosis, namely, dysmenorrhea (p = 0.841), dyspareunia (0.466), chronic pelvic pain (p = 0.295), and intestinal (p = 0.573) or urinary (p = 0.809) diseases. Comparisons of median scores in the QoL domains demonstrated that the distributions of QoL and clinical symptoms were significantly related between the types of dyspareunia and the following domains: physical functioning (p = 0.017), role- emotional (p = 0.013), and general health (p = 0.001). Regarding pain outside of menstruation, there was significance in the pain domain (p = 0.017), and degree of pain was significance in physical functioning (p = 0.005) and role-physical (p = 0.011) domains.
conclusionsThe present study pointed out that it is not the stage of endometriosis that interferes in the quality of life of women with endometriosis and infertility but rather the clinical manifestations, such as dyspareunia and pain. Thus, we can conclude that the patient's perception of the disease should be considered in health care and that the losses are independent of the degree of endometriosis in this population with the aggravating factor of infertility.
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