The tampon test for vulvodynia treatment outcomes research: Reliability, construct validity, and responsiveness

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 825-832

  Foster, David C ^a,b   Beth Kotok, Merrill ^a   Huang, Li Shan ^a   Watts, Arthur ^a   Oakes, David ^a   Howard, Fred M ^a   Stodgell, Chris J ^a   Dworkin, Robert H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b STRONG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIPRAMINE; LIDOCAINE; ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR AFFECTING AGENT; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BRIEF PAIN INVENTORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DYSPAREUNIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MCGILL PAIN QUESTIONNAIRE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFILE OF MOOD STATES; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; TAMPON; TAMPON TEST; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VULVAR VESTIBULITIS; VULVODYNIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COITUS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG POTENTIATION; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; METHODOLOGY; PAIN; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; VULVA DISEASE;

ADRENERGIC UPTAKE INHIBITORS; ADULT; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; COITUS; DESIPRAMINE; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OBSTETRICAL AND GYNECOLOGICAL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG COMBINATIONS; DRUG SYNERGISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIDOCAINE; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VULVAR DISEASES;

EID: 65649115090     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e31819bda7c     Document Type: Article

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