Franziska Springer, Peter Esser, Michael Friedrich, Jochen Ernst, Uwe Platzbecker, Vladan Vucinic, Anja Mehnert-Theuerkauf
Compliance with medical regimen among hematological cancer patients and its association with symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder and adjustment disorder
Frontiers in psychology
limited health literacy hl risk factor poor patient outcomes including pain chronic pelvic pain cpp prevalent disorder affecting 25 women coexists multiple overlapping conditions study aimed describe health literacy women cpp primarily correlate hl pain intensity pain duration secondarily correlate hl mood symptoms pain catastrophizing hypothesized women cpp higher hl would report lower levels pain intensity duration prospective crosssectional study fortyfive women cpp recruited outpatient physical medicine rehabilitation female pelvic medicine reconstructive surgery clinics validated questionnaires administered evaluate pain intensity duration pain disability psychological symptoms pain catastrophizing health literacy statistical analyses included descriptive statistics patient characteristics summary scores well spearmans rank correlation coefficients rho assess strength associations summary scores health literacy fortyfive women cpp enrolled mean age 49 years majority nonhispanic white median chronic pelvic pain duration 7 years possible high likelihood limited health literacy identified 20 women cpp 111 89 respectively limited health literacy moderately correlated pain intensity depressive symptoms pain catastrophizing pain duration significantly correlated health literacy remaining 80 women cpp likely adequate health literacy majority women cpp single center study likely adequate health literacy limited health literacy seen minority women cpp moderately correlated greater pain intensity depressive symptoms higher pain catastrophizing study identified women cpp likely adequate hl underscores importance considering hl screening interventions higher pain intensity depression pain catastrophizing