NCT03828591

Endometriosis and Psychological Support

The Impact of Psychological Support During the Hospitalization in Women With Endometriosis

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (estimated)
• Sponsor: IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 50 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Endometriosis is a common disease, causing significant pain (dysmenorrhea, dysuria, dyspnea, dyspareunia, and chronic pelvic pain) and infertility, drastically reducing patients' quality of life. Endometriosis surgery is often a stressful event for the patient. For that reason, psychological support can improve patients' general health state.

Detailed description

Patients with clinical and trans-vaginal / abdominal ultrasound diagnosis of endometriosis, undergoing surgery for the removal of endometriotic lesions are included in the study. Psychological support is offered to all women one month before and one month after surgery. A group of patients will receive intensive psychological support during hospitalization. Patients are divided into 2 groups: Group A: patients receiving intensive psychological support during hospitalization Group B: patients not receiving intensive psychological support during hospitalization After surgery, patients will be included in the post-operative follow-up, as usual in the investigator's clinical practice.

Conditions

• Endometriosis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Intensive psychological support	Two meeting with a psychologist during the hospitalization (the first two days after surgery; the second one at the moment of the hospitalization discharge)
PROCEDURE	Standard psychological support	Two meetings with a psychologist: the first meeting is one month before surgery; the second meeting is one month after surgery

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-03-01
• Primary completion: 2019-08-01
• Completion: 2019-09-01
• First posted: 2019-02-04
• Last updated: 2019-05-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy