Fertility and sterility
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Fertility and sterility · Oct 2017
Pain cognition versus pain intensity in patients with endometriosis: toward personalized treatment.
To explore how pain intensity and pain cognition are related to health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in women with endometriosis. ⋯ Pain cognition is independently associated with the HRQoL in endometriosis patients. Clinicians should be aware of this phenomenon and may consider treating pain symptoms in a multidimensional, individualized way in which the psychological aspects are taken into account. In international guidelines on management of women with endometriosis more attention should be paid to the psychological aspects of care.