Cristina Zarbo

BACKGROUND: Women with endometriosis are at risk for poor mental health and suicidal ideation and behaviour. This manuscript includes two studies aimed to: (i) investigate the differences in suicidal ideation (SI) frequencies between women …

The link between pain severity, depressive symptomatology and catastrophizing among women with endometriosis is still under-investigated. The aim of this study was to (i) evaluate differences in depressive symptomatology between women with …

Literature about the impact of infertility and endometriosis on Quality of Life (QoL) is scarce and needs further investigation. Our aim was to deeply investigate the QoL of women with diagnoses of both endometriosis and infertility with fa…

Sixty women with a diagnosis of endometriosis (30 with low pain severity - LP; 30 with high pain severity - HP) were evaluated at study entry (T0) and after three months (T1). At T0 they were compared for different psychological dimensions …

Endometriosis is known to be associated with severe painful symptomatology, infertility, low quality of life and high psychological distress. The aim of this doctoral thesis was to explore the role of cognitive and personality factors (e.g.…

OBJECTIVE: The impact of pain on quality of life and mental health of women with endometriosis is well known. However, the role that personality traits and coping strategies might have in influencing pain experience is still poorly understo…

Objective: Infertility has a severe impact on quality of life and mental health. This condition could be exacerbated by the existence of comorbid medical disease, like endometriosis. The aim of this critical narrative review is the examinat…

Aim: This study aimed to investigate which surgery (conservative, radical) is the most effective in improving quality of life and if childbirth after conservative one affects outcomes. Method: 79 women who underwent radical or conservative …