Chronic Vulvar Pain and Health-Related Quality of Life in Women with Vulvodynia

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate the severity of chronic vulvar pain in women with vulvodynia and its impact on their health-related quality of life (QL). The study group consisted of 76 women aged 19 to 58. The study was carried out using the diagnostic survey method, i.e., (1) the questionnaire technique, comprising (A) the author’s questionnaire (76 questions) and (B) the WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire, and (2) the VAS. When analyzing the severity of vulvar pain on the VAS, the highest proportion of women rated it at level 6 (23.68%). This was significantly determined by certain personal characteristics (age p p p p p < 0.05).

Keywords

• vulvodynia
• chronic vulvar pain
• VAS
• quality of life
• WHOQOL-BREF