Allyson C. Bontempo

Endometriosis is an estrogen-dependent chronic systemic inflammatory disease that affects 10 % of people assigned female at birth. Despite its prevalence, mean diagnostic delay is 4-11 years. Although much research has involved patients, mu…

The aim of this paper is to provide foundational work to standardize the conceptual definition of what I refer to as symptom invalidation by using invalidating environments and illness representations as guiding conceptual frameworks. Mixed…

OBJECTIVE: To analyse endometriosis diagnostic errors made by clinicians as reported by patients with endometriosis. METHODS: This study deductively analysed qualitative data as part of a larger mixed-methods research study examining 'inva…

The upsurge in the prevalence of contested, ambiguous, and difficult-to-diagnose illnesses presents challenges for clinicians who too often respond by invalidating patients' symptoms. Although numerous qualitative studies have reported the …

Endometriosis is a chronic and often painful inflammatory disease affecting one in ten biological females. It has been characterized as enigmatic and the average diagnostic delay is nearly seven years, time which patients experience as tumu…

ObjectivesQualitative research has thoroughly investigated the diagnostic journeys of patients, who have often reported difficulty with healthcare providers regarding the acknowledgement of an organic, pathological cause for their symptoms …

Background Endometriosis is an estrogen-dependent disease affecting 10% of females in which endometrial-like tissue grows outside the uterus, resulting in pain, infertility, and physical and psychosocial dysfunction. Prior research document…