Classifying Patients with Chronic Pelvic Pain into Levels of Biopsychosocial Dysfunction Using Latent Class Modeling of Patient Reported Outcome Measures
Table 5
Patients’ medical and psychosocial characteristics across class designation. Each individual latent class is described according to medical and psychosocial scores. The characteristics for the entire studied population are shown in the last column. All percentages have been rounded up to the nearest tenth of decimal point and may not add up to 100 percent. CTQ: Childhood Trauma Questionnaire. PTSD: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Scale.
Class
Total 613
0: no dysfunction 23 (3.2%)
1: low dysfunction 119 (17.8%)
2: moderate dysfunction 314 (53.2%)
3: high dysfunction 157 (25.8%)
Smoker
5 (21.7%)
37 (31.1%)
159 (50.6%)
103 (65.6%)
304
Gravidity
0 pregnancies
10 (43.4%)
32 (26.9%)
82 (26.1%)
32 (20.4%)
156
1–3 pregnancies
9 (39.1%)
70 (58.8%)
165 (52.5%)
88 (56.1%)
332
4–7 pregnancies
4 (17.4%)
20 (16.8%)
75 (23.9%)
32 (20.4%)
131
8 or more pregnancies
0 (0.0%)
2 (1.7%)
7 (2.2%)
6 (3.8%)
15
Parity
0 births
11 (47.8%)
36 (30.3%)
107 (34.1%)
49 (31.2%)
203
1–3 births
12 (52.2%)
75 (63%)
194 (61.8%)
96 (61.1%)
377
4 or more births
0 (0.0%)
12 (10.1%)
28 (1%)
11 (7%)
51
Months of pain
Less than 3 months
1 (4.3%)
3 (2.5%)
9 (2.9%)
9 (5.7%)
22
3 to 6 months
2 (8.7%)
15 (12.6%)
31 (9.9%)
16 (10.2%)
64
6 to 12 months
8 (34.8%)
19 (16%)
64 (20.4%)
26 (16.6%)
117
12 to 36 months
5 (21.7%)
33 (27.7%)
79 (25.2%)
44 (28%)
161
3 to 6 years
4 (17.4%)
28 (23.5%)
65 (20.7%)
27 (17.2%)
124
6 years or more
2 (8.7%)
21 (17.6%)
69 (22%)
35 (22.3%)
127
Number of physicians
0
3 (13%)
3 (2.5%)
3 (1%)
3 (2%)
12
1
6 (26.1%)
43 (36.1%)
71 (22.6%)
34 (21.7%)
154
2
5 (21.7%)
37 (31.1%)
96 (30.6%)
46 (29.3%)
184
3
2 (8.7%)
14 (12%)
59 (18.8%)
31 (19.7%)
106
4 or more
6 (26.1%)
23 (19.3%)
88 (28%)
44 (28%)
161
Number of surgeries
0
10 (43.5%)
52 (43.7%)
90 (28.7%)
45 (28.7%)
197
1
7 (30.4%)
28 (23.5%)
79 (25.2%)
41 (26.1%)
155
2
2 (8.7%)
21 (17.6%)
30 (9.6%)
30 (19.1%)
115
3 or more
2 (8.7%)
19 (13.1%)
41 (13.1%)
41 (26.1%)
145
CTQ score2,5
2 (3)
2 (3)
4 (5)
6 (6)
4 (5)
Catastrophization score3,5
18 (7)
18 (13)
27 (13)
40 (12)
28 (15)
PTSD score4,5
6 (14)
7 (7)
14 (11)
25 (13)
15 (12)
2Out of a possible 24 points. 3Out of a possible 52 points. 4Out of a possible 68 points. 5Last three rows are the mean (standard deviation).
