Table 2.
Overall pain scores pre-operatively and at time of interview (“today”) based on numeric rating scale ranging from zero (no pain) to 100 (highest imaginable pain). Median time between surgery and interview was 6 years (range 4.3–7.8). Adjusted values and corresponding p values were obtained with univariate ANCOVA. Only patients with a pre-operative NRS Score of > 20 were included
| Factor | n | NRS pain score | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-operative Mean (SD) |
Today Mean (SD) |
aAdjusted today Mean (SE) |
p value | |||
| Whole cohort | – | 110 | 77.2 (17.7) | 28.2 (29.0) | – | < 0.001b |
| Age [years] | <30 | 31 | 81.9 (15.2) | 35.0 (28.8) | 34.7 (5.2) | 0.150 |
| >30 | 79 | 75.3 (18.4) | 25.5 (28.8) | 25.6 (3.3) | ||
| Obesity (BMI > 30) | <30 | 89 | 76.3 (18.4) | 30.1 (28.9) | 30.2 (3.1) | 0.142 |
| >30 | 21 | 80.7 (14.5) | 20.2 (28.4) | 19.8 (6.3) | ||
| Smoker | Yes | 61 | 75.3 (17.1) | 29.2 (28.9) | 29.4 (3.7) | 0.628 |
| No | 49 | 79.5 (18.4) | 26.9 (29.3) | 26.7 (4.2) | ||
| Higher education | Yes | 40 | 78.3 (17.8) | 31.9 (30.4) | 31.8 (4.6) | 0.332 |
| No | 70 | 76.5 (17.8) | 26.1 (28.2) | 26.1 (3.5) | ||
| Physical acitivity ≥ 1x weekly | Yes | 64 | 78.4 (17.7) | 27.0 (27.5) | 26.8 (3.6) | 0.561 |
| No | 46 | 75.4 (17.8) | 29.9 (31.1) | 30.1 (4.3) | ||
| Permanent partnership | Yes | 93 | 77.1 (18.2) | 25.2 (27.1) | 25.2 (2.9) | 0.010 |
| No | 17 | 77.7 (14.9) | 44.7 (34.1) | 44.7 (6.9) | ||
| rASRM (Missing = 9) | I | 32 | 79.8 (19.8) | 34.7 (29.9) | 34.4 (5.2) | 0.535 |
| II | 17 | 75.0 (16.3) | 26.8 (25.0) | 27.0 (7.1) | ||
| III | 21 | 76.4 (15.6) | 30.7 (33.0) | 30.8 (6.4) | ||
| IV | 31 | 77.1 (18.1) | 23.9 (27.3) | 23.9 (5.2) | ||
| CPP | Yes | 81 | 78.3 (17.2) | 32.2 (30.6) | 32.1 (3.2) | 0.017 |
| No | 29 | 74.1 (19.0) | 16.9 (20.5) | 17.1 (5.3) | ||
| Dysmenorrhoe | Yes | 101 | 77.8 (16.9) | 28.6 (29.5) | 28.5 (2.9) | 0.702 |
| No | 9 | 70.6 (25.3) | 23.9 (22.9) | 24.6 (28.5) | ||
| Dispareunia | Yes | 70 | 79.8 (16.5) | 28.3 (27.9) | 28.0 (3.5) | 0.925 |
| No | 40 | 72.5 (19.0) | 28.0 (31.1) | 28.5 (4.7) | ||
| Infertility | Yes | 59 | 75.6 (18.7) | 28.3 (27.4) | 28.5 (3.8) | 0.908 |
| No | 51 | 79.0 (16.4) | 28.0 (31.0) | 27.8 (4.1) | ||
| Postoperative hormonal therapy (Missing = 8) | No | 40 | 65.9 (20.6) | 23.8 (24.9) | 23.8 (5.0) | 0.515 |
| cComb. or estradiol | 17 | 84.0 (13.3) | 31.8 (34.4) | 34.1 (7.2) | ||
| dProgestin | 45 | 84.1 (11.6) | 30.0 (29.9) | 29.5 (4.5) | ||
CPP chronic pelvic pain. Bold numbers indicate statistical significance (p ≤ 0.05)
aAdjusted for pre-operative NRS-value and the respective factor
bWilcoxon signed rank-test
cCombined oral contraceptives or estradiol (two women received estradiol alone for HRT after bilateral adnexectomy)
dOral progestin or hormonal intrauterine device