Quality-of-life impact of interstitial cystitis and other pelvic pain syndromes
Author
Cunningham, Andrew R.; Gu, Lin; Dubinskaya, Alexandra; De Hoedt, Amanda M.; Barbour, Kamil E.; Kim, Jayoung; Freedland, Stephen J.; Anger, Jennifer T.
Abstract
Objective: To compare health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and pelvic pain levels over time in patients with interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome (IC/BPS) and those with other pelvic pain conditions (OPPC) including chronic prostatitis, dyspareunia, vaginismus, vulvodynia, and vulvar vestibulitis.
Methods: We prospectively enrolled male and female patients from any Veterans Health Administration (VHA) center in the US. They completed the Genitourinary Pain Index (GUPI) quantifying urologic HRQOL and the 12-Item Short Form Survey version 2 (SF-12) quantifying general HRQOL at enrollment and 1 year later. Participants were classified by ICD diagnosis codes and confirmed by chart review to be IC/BPS or OPPC (308 and 85 patients respectively).
Results: At baseline and follow-up, IC/BPS patients, on average, had worse urologic and general HRQOL than OPPC patients. IC/BPS patients demonstrated improvement in urologic HRQOL measures over the study but demonstrated no significant change in any general HRQOL measure suggesting a condition-specific impact. Patients with OPPC demonstrated similar improvements in urologic HRQOL but had deteriorating mental health and general HRQOL at follow-up suggesting a wider general HRQOL impact for these diseases.
Conclusions: We found that patients with IC/BPS had worse urologic HRQOL compared to other pelvic conditions. Despite this, IC/BPS showed stable general HRQOL over time, suggesting a more condition-specific impact on HRQOL. OPPC patients showed deteriorating general HRQOL, suggesting more widespread pain symptoms in these conditions.
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Date
2023-05-25
Citation:
APA:
Cunningham, Andrew R., & Gu, Lin, & Dubinskaya, Alexandra, & De Hoedt, Amanda M., & Barbour, Kamil E., & Kim, Jayoung, & Freedland, Stephen J., & Anger, Jennifer T.. (May 2023).
Quality-of-life impact of interstitial cystitis and other pelvic pain syndromes.
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of-life impact of interstitial cystitis and other pelvic pain syndromes. Front. Pain Res. 4:1149783. doi: 10.3389/fpain.2023.1149783. Retrieved from
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/13209
MLA:
Cunningham, Andrew R., and Gu, Lin, and Dubinskaya, Alexandra, and De Hoedt, Amanda M., and Barbour, Kamil E., and Kim, Jayoung, and Freedland, Stephen J., and Anger, Jennifer T..
"Quality-of-life impact of interstitial cystitis and other pelvic pain syndromes". .
. (),
May 2023.
June 29, 2024.
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/13209.
Chicago:
Cunningham, Andrew R. and Gu, Lin and Dubinskaya, Alexandra and De Hoedt, Amanda M. and Barbour, Kamil E. and Kim, Jayoung and Freedland, Stephen J. and Anger, Jennifer T.,
"Quality-of-life impact of interstitial cystitis and other pelvic pain syndromes," , no.
(May 2023),
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/13209 (accessed
June 29, 2024).
AMA:
Cunningham, Andrew R., Gu, Lin, Dubinskaya, Alexandra, De Hoedt, Amanda M., Barbour, Kamil E., Kim, Jayoung, Freedland, Stephen J., Anger, Jennifer T..
Quality-of-life impact of interstitial cystitis and other pelvic pain syndromes. .
May 2023;
():
.
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/13209. Accessed
June 29, 2024.
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