Obstetrics and gynecology
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Obstetrics and gynecology · Aug 1994
Comparative StudyAbuse history and chronic pain in women: I. Prevalences of sexual abuse and physical abuse.
To compare the prevalences of childhood and adult physical and sexual abuse in women with chronic pelvic pain to those in women with chronic nonpelvic pain (headache) and pain-free women. ⋯ These results support a specific association between major sexual abuse and chronic pelvic pain and a more general association between physical abuse and chronic pain. Moreover, the global nature of the abuse histories of the women in the chronic pelvic pain group suggests that more rigorous studies of the relation between abuse history and chronic pelvic pain are needed.
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Obstetrics and gynecology · Aug 1994
Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical TrialAcupressure for nausea and vomiting of pregnancy: a randomized, blinded study.
To evaluate the effectiveness of acupressure in reducing nausea and vomiting of pregnancy. ⋯ Our results indicate that acupressure at the PC-6 anatomical site is effective in reducing symptoms of nausea but not frequency of vomiting in pregnant women.
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Obstetrics and gynecology · Aug 1994
Abuse history and chronic pain in women: II. A multivariate analysis of abuse and psychological morbidity.
To assess the potential role of childhood and adulthood physical and sexual abuse and complaints of chronic pain in accounting for psychiatric symptomatology in adult women. ⋯ The relation observed between childhood sexual abuse and the outcomes of depression, anxiety, and somatization in women may be a function of its association with other forms of abuse, particularly childhood physical abuse. Further investigation is clearly needed of the nature of the relations between the various categories of abuse and psychological morbidity.