The impact of endometriosis on women's mental health and quality of life – review

Paweł Nowocin, Zuzanna Kudas, Martyna Koszyk, A Litwin, Karolina Krzywicka, Dawid Wiktor Kulczyński, Natalia Dąbrowska, Paulina Kumięga, Nikola Perchel, Piotr Wasiński
In: Medical Science · 2024 · vol. 28(154) , pp. 1–7 · doi:10.54905/disssi.v28i154.e160ms3483 · W4406077366
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This review examines how endometriosis impacts women's depression, anxiety, social withdrawal, and relationships, exacerbated by diagnostic delays, and highlights the need for integrated care.

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This open-access review studied how endometriosis affects women’s mental health and quality of life, using a broad literature search of PubMed and PubMed Central with terms including endometriosis, mental health, quality of life, depression, and anxiety. The authors summarize evidence that endometriosis-associated symptoms—especially chronic pelvic pain and dysmenorrhea, along with dyspareunia, fatigue, and gastrointestinal or urinary symptoms—reduce daily functioning, social participation, and work productivity, and are linked with depression, anxiety, and social withdrawal, with emotional distress further exacerbated by prolonged diagnostic delays and relational impacts. A stated limitation is that the paper is a review rather than a single new empirical study, and it does not quantify effect sizes within the provided text. This paper is centrally about endometriosis — it focuses specifically on how endometriosis impacts women’s mental health and quality of life.

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