PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY IN WOMEN ATTENDING A CLINIC FOR VULVAR PROBLEMS- IS THERE A HIGHER RATE IN VULVODYNIA

Authors
JADRESIC D BARTON S NEILL S STAUGHTON R MARWOOD R
Citation
D. Jadresic et al., PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY IN WOMEN ATTENDING A CLINIC FOR VULVAR PROBLEMS- IS THERE A HIGHER RATE IN VULVODYNIA, International journal of STD & AIDS, 4(4), 1993, pp. 237-239
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Immunology,"Infectious Diseases
Journal title
International journal of STD & AIDS → ACNP
ISSN journal
09564624
Volume
4
Issue
4
Year of publication
1993
Pages
237 - 239
Database
ISI
SICI code
0956-4624(1993)4:4<237:PMIWAA>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
A General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) was completed by 55 women attendi ng a clinic for vulval problems in central London. The GHQ-caseness ra te was 40% from which the psychiatric morbidity in the sample was esti mated to be 32%. The level of psychiatric morbidity in 10 women with a diagnosis of vulvodynia was similar to that of 41 women with other vu lval diagnoses.