Achieving clinically meaningful response in endometriosis pain symptoms is associated with improvements in health-related quality of life and work productivity: analysis of 2 phase III clinical trials

Pokrzywinski RM, Robin M Pokrzywinski, Robin Pokrzywinski, Ahmed M. Soliman, Jun Chen, Chen J, Snabes MC, Michael C. Snabes, Karin S. Coyne, Coyne KS, Eric S. Surrey, Surrey ES, Hugh S. Taylor
American journal of obstetrics and gynecology · 2019 · vol. 222(6) , pp. 592.e1–592.e10 · doi:10.1016/j.ajog.2019.11.1255 · PMID:31759891 · W2990244587
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Achieving clinically meaningful response in endometriosis pain symptoms correlated with significant improvements in patients' health-related quality of life and work productivity in two Phase III trials.

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BACKGROUND: Endometriosis-related pain symptoms have a negative impact on health-related quality of life and productivity. In fact, as endometriosis-related symptom severity and the number of symptoms experienced increases, health-related quality of life decreases. Dysmenorrhea and nonmenstrual pelvic pain are prominent symptoms experienced by women with endometriosis and were shown to have improved with the oral, nonpeptide gonadotropin-releasing hormone antagonist, elagolix. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this post hoc analysis was to address the question of if patients show a clinical response (in dysmenorrhea or nonmenstrual pelvic pain), do they also have improvements in health-related quality of life and in productivity? STUDY DESIGN: This post hoc analysis used data from the Elaris Endometriosis-I and Elaris Endometriosis-II phase III, randomized, placebo-controlled studies. A surgical diagnosis of endometriosis (in the past 10 years), premenopausal, aged 18-49 years, and moderate to severe endometriosis-associated pain were among the inclusion criteria for both trials. Women self-reported pain daily using a scale ranging from 0 (no pain) to 3 (severe pain); daily pain was assigned to either dysmenorrhea or nonmenstrual pelvic pain based on self-reported bleeding on that particular day. In addition, their self-reported endometriosis-associated pain must have been an average of moderate or severe during the month leading to baseline for inclusion in the trial program. Patients were characterized as achieving a clinical response for dysmenorrhea or nonmenstrual pelvic pain (ie, responder or nonresponder), which was defined as women who did not have an increase in analgesic use and who met the pain reduction score threshold at month 3. Pain reduction score thresholds were defined separately for dysmenorrhea and nonmenstrual pelvic pain in the trial using receiver-operating characteristics analysis. Health-related quality of life was assessed using the Endometriosis Health Profile-30; work productivity was assessed using the Health-Related Productivity Questionnaire. RESULTS: Women enrolled in Elaris Endometriosis-I (n = 871) and Elaris Endometriosis-II (n = 815) were included in this analysis. Patients with a clinical response during treatment to dysmenorrhea or nonmenstrual pelvic pain also experienced a meaningful improvement in all domains of the Endometriosis Health Profile-30 at month 3. Patients who did not show a dysmenorrhea or nonmenstrual pelvic pain clinical response at month 3 did not exhibit mean improvements in Endometriosis Health Profile-30 domain scores that indicate an Endometriosis Health Profile-30 responder. Productivity improved among dysmenorrhea clinical responders. In the Elaris Endometriosis-I study, clinical responders lost a total of 5.9 hours compared with a total of 13.0 hours for nonresponders of employment-related work at month 3 (P < .0001). Among women in the Elaris Endometriosis-II study, a total of 4.1 hours and 10.4 employment-related hours were lost at month 3 for dysmenorrhea responders vs nonresponders (P < .001). Similar results were obtained when analyzed by non-enstrual pelvic pain responder status. CONCLUSION: Women with moderate to severe endometriosis-related pain, who are clinical responders based on dysmenorrhea and nonmenstrual pelvic pain, also experience significant and clinically meaningful improvement in health-related quality of life and productivity as measured by the Endometriosis Health Profile-30 and Health-Related Productivity Questionnaire, respectively.

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dysmenorrheaendometriosischronic_pelvic_pain

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Dysmenorrhea Efficiency Efficiency Endometriosis Hormone Antagonists Hydrocarbons, Fluorinated Pelvic Pain Pyrimidines Quality of Life Quality of Life Work Work Adolescent Adolescent Adult Adult Dysmenorrhea Dysmenorrhea Endometriosis Endometriosis

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