IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/plo/pone00/0208023.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Satisfaction with medical support in women with endometriosis

Author

Listed:
  • Ilona Lukas
  • Alexandra Kohl-Schwartz
  • Kirsten Geraedts
  • Martina Rauchfuss
  • Monika M Wölfler
  • Felix Häberlin
  • Stephanie von Orelli
  • Markus Eberhard
  • Bruno Imthurn
  • Patrick Imesch
  • Brigitte Leeners

Abstract

Endometriosis affects various aspects of women’s lives. We searched for predictors for patient satisfaction with medical support (PSwMS) in women with endometriosis. The study was designed as a multi-centre retrospective cohort study. We approached women with histologically confirmed endometriosis from 2010 until 2016, comparing women satisfied to women dissatisfied with medical support. We analysed data on characteristics of endometriosis, PSwMS and the influence of disease characteristics on PSwMS. Information on satisfaction with medical support was collected through a standardized questionnaire. After exclusion of 73 women because of inchoately filled in questionnaires, data from 498 women was evaluated. Altogether, it was observed that 54.6% (n = 272) of the study participants were satisfied with medical support and 45.4% (n = 226) were not. Feeling adequately informed by the time of diagnosis (p

Suggested Citation

  • Ilona Lukas & Alexandra Kohl-Schwartz & Kirsten Geraedts & Martina Rauchfuss & Monika M Wölfler & Felix Häberlin & Stephanie von Orelli & Markus Eberhard & Bruno Imthurn & Patrick Imesch & Brigitte Le, 2018. "Satisfaction with medical support in women with endometriosis," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(11), pages 1-16, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0208023
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0208023
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0208023
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0208023&type=printable
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1371/journal.pone.0208023?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0208023. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: plosone (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.