Image-based Documentation of Vulvodynia Pain Location

Overview

Journal Pain Manag

Specialty Psychiatry

Date 2022 Jan 21

PMID 35060761

Authors

Guettchina Telisnor

Rishabh Garg

Jennifer E Glayzer

William H Kobak

Gebre-Egziabher Kiros

Yingwei Yao

Diana J Wilkie

Judith M Schlaeger

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Abstract

Better documentation of vulvar pain is needed. We examined pain locations marked on general body and genital specific outlines among women with vulvodynia. 62 women (mean age 32.1 ± 9.5 years) with vulvodynia marked their pain on a digital genital specific outline (22 segments) and 59 of those women also marked their pain on a digital general body outline (48 segments). We used ImageJ software to determine body surface area (BSA) for each outline. On the general body outline, 24/48 segments were marked; 22/22 segments were marked on the genital specific outline. There was a moderate correlation ( = 0.43; p = 0.001) between the BSA marked on the general body outline and the BSA marked on the genital area outline. Findings support concurrent validity of the BSA as a measure of pain location using either outline.

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