Author | Cunningham, Andrew R. | |
Author | Gu, Lin | |
Author | Dubinskaya, Alexandra | |
Author | De Hoedt, Amanda M. | |
Author | Barbour, Kamil E. | |
Author | Kim, Jayoung | |
Author | Freedland, Stephen J. | |
Author | Anger, Jennifer T. | |
Date Accessioned | 2023-11-30T14:05:20Z | |
Date Available | 2023-11-30T14:05:20Z | |
Date of Issue | 2023-05-25 | |
Identifier (Citation) | Cunningham AR, Gu L, Dubinskaya A, De Hoedt AM, Barbour KE, Kim J, Freedland SJ and Anger JT (2023) Quality-of-life impact of interstitial cystitis and other pelvic pain syndromes. Front. Pain Res. 4:1149783. doi: 10.3389/fpain.2023.1149783 | en_US |
Identifier (URI) | http://hdl.handle.net/10342/13209 | |
Description | Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) | en_US |
Description | 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. | en_US |
Sponsorship | ECU/Frontiers Open Access Publishing Agreement | en_US |
Related URI | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpain.2023.1149783/full | en_US |
Subject | intersticial cystitis | en_US |
Subject | bladder pain syndrome | en_US |
Subject | IC/BPS | en_US |
Subject | pelvic pain | en_US |
Subject | veterans | en_US |
Title | Quality-of-life impact of interstitial cystitis and other pelvic pain syndromes | en_US |
Type | Article | en_US |
Identifier (DOI) | 10.3389/fpain.2023.1149783 | |
Journal Name | Frontiers in Pain Research | en_US |
Journal Volume | 4 | en_US |