Depression and anxiety in women with endometriosis: an critical review
This review aims to present the results of studies evaluating the prevalence and / or levels of depressionand anxiety in women with endometriosis. For this a literature search was performed in PubMed,LILACS and Web of Science and 21 articles were selected for reading. Of these, eleven analyzed anxie...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2016 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR) |
| Repositorio: | Revista Interação em Psicologia (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/34308 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.ufpr.br/psicologia/article/view/34308 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | endometriose depressão ansiedade endometriosis depression anxiety |
| Sumario: | This review aims to present the results of studies evaluating the prevalence and / or levels of depressionand anxiety in women with endometriosis. For this a literature search was performed in PubMed,LILACS and Web of Science and 21 articles were selected for reading. Of these, eleven analyzed anxietyand depression, simultaneously, only nine depression and one anxiety. It was observed that patients withendometriosis exhibit high levels of depression and anxiety, probably due to frequent pain, infertility,delayed diagnosis and disease recurrence. It is concluded that psychological counseling should be offeredto women with endometriosis and this is, therefore, an essential component for the treatment of thisgynecological condition. |
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