VPIPQ
Research type
Research Study
Full title
The validation and application of chronic pelvic pain questionnaire in Gynaecology.
IRAS ID
289969
Contact name
Mittal Patel
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 2 months, 2 days
Research summary
Pelvic pain is a common indication for referral to women’s health services, affecting 1 in 4 women and costing up to an estimated £158 million annually to NHS. It is a subjective complaint which is difficult to assess and manage but important to be able to measure objectively to measure its burden, impact of quality of life and response to treatments and interventions.
There are many pain scales and questionnaires available to assess intensity and impact, however not many have been validated, especially using the International Continence Society (ICS) definition. We aim to create a new validated questionnaire which can assess the quality and severity of pain and its impact on quality of life in women attending urogynaecology clinic with pelvic pain. This is important as the definition of pain has evolved since the validation of the current questionnaires. More importance is being to the impact of pain on lifestyle as a measure of severity of pain as a symptom and the effectiveness of treatment, this is poorly addressed by the current pain questionnaires being used.
Women attending the Gynaecology department who can understand English and can provide informed consent will be invited to complete a newly devised and another validated questionnaire to assess their pain as part of their consultation. We aim to recruit 310 women over 12 months, including 50 women who would be asked to repeat the questionnaires a week later for reproducibility.
We will then use the data to create a validated questionnaire which can be used to assess the quality and impact of pain in Gynaecology and specifically Urogynaecology which meets the ICS definition which other questionnaires do not. This can then be used to as an assessment tool in consultations, research and as part of pre and post intervention pain evaluation.REC name
East Midlands - Leicester South Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
20/EM/0288
Date of REC Opinion
18 Dec 2020
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion