Evaluation of quality of life and its correlation with sexual function, pain and depression in women with endometriosis: a case-control study
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Abstract
Introduction: Endometriosis is a chronic disease that affects women of reproductive age, whose classic presentations include chronic pelvic pain and infertility, which can significantly impair physical, mental and social well-being; causing psychological stress, low self-esteem and depression, which reduces the quality of life of these patients. Objective: To evaluate the effect of endometriosis on quality of life, correlating with sexual function and the occurrence of pain and depression symptoms in women affected by the disease. Methods: This is an observational, exploratory, hospital-based, case-control study involving women with and without endometriosis, developed at the Chronic Pelvic Pain (CPP) Clinic and Endometriosis at the Assis Chateaubriand Maternity School (ACMS). The data were collected using the Short Form Health Survey (SF-36), the Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI), the Beck inventory (BI) and pain questionnaire (McGill), as well as the standardized evaluation form of the CPP and endometriosis service, which includes the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS). Results: In the evaluation of the general quality of life using the SF-36, statistically significant differences were found in all 8 domains of the questionnaire, showing a worse quality of life in women with endometriosis. The worsening of the quality of life according to the SF-36 score presented a correlation directly proportional to lower scores of the sexual function questionnaire, higher scores of the depression questionnaire and the multidimensional pain scale. Conclusion: Women with endometriosis present a greater deterioration in QoL when compared to women without endometriosis. The impact of endometriosis on QoL is associated with increased sexual dysfunction, a greater degree of depression and a greater impact on some components related to pain. Key words: Endometriosis. Quality of life. Depression. Sexual function. Pain.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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