Journal article
Mental Health Care Providers: Resource Rather Than Last Resort in Patients With Chronic Pelvic Pain
Clinical obstetrics and gynecology, Vol.46(4), pp.804-810
12/2003
DOI: 10.1097/00003081-200312000-00010
PMID: 14595222
Abstract
Introduction
In general, definitions of chronic pain contain both physical and psychological components because pain perceptions are influenced by somatic, cognitive, behavioral, and affective factors. Chronic Pelvic Pain (CPP) has been described as non-menstrual pain of 3 or more months' duration, located in the lower abdomen, hips, thighs, buttocks, and/or rectum sufficiently severe to cause functional disability and require medical/surgical treatment with or without clear organic pathology. This accepted definition of CPP excludes psychosocial variables in making the diagnosis of and selecting treatments for CPP, thus relegating the mental health provider to the status of last resort rather than an integral participant in the care of women with CPP.
CPP is a major health concern for women that presents challenges to the clinician and potentially devastating consequences to the patient. Most patients with gynecologic conditions are treatable. However, a significant number of chronic pelvic pain patients undergo various invasive treatments at tremendous physical, financial, and emotional cost with little or no long-term benefit.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Mental Health Care Providers: Resource Rather Than Last Resort in Patients With Chronic Pelvic Pain
- Creators
- BETH DINOFF - †Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spain Rehabilitation Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham; ‡Pain and Rehabilitation Institute, The Doleys Clinic, Birmingham, AlabamaS MEADE-PRUITTDANIEL DOLEYS
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Clinical obstetrics and gynecology, Vol.46(4), pp.804-810
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc
- DOI
- 10.1097/00003081-200312000-00010
- PMID
- 14595222
- ISSN
- 0009-9201
- eISSN
- 1532-5520
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/2003
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Anesthesia
- Record Identifier
- 9984006303102771
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