Prevalence of chronic pelvic pain and primary dysmenorrhea in women of reproductive age in Ecuador

BMC Women's Health

Table 2 Estimates of the prevalence ratio adjusted by the log-binomial model, followed by confidence intervals and the p-value considering women with non cyclical pelvic pain, primary dysmenorrhoea, and with both jointly conditions

	PR adjusted	CI 95%		p-value
	PR adjusted	inf	sup	p-value
A-Non cyclical pelvic pain¹
Irritative urinary symptoms	1.5	1.10	2.08	0.011
Primary dysmenorrhoea	1.5	1.00	2.12	0.047
Screening for mental disorders	1.4	1.02	1.94	0.038
B-Primary dysmenorrhoea²
IBS criteria	2.2	1.45	3.27	0.002
Smoking	1.9	1.32	2.76	0.001
Dyspareunia	1.6	1.03	2.30	0.036
Sleep disturbance	1.6	1.08	2.28	0.018
Screening for mental disorders	1.5	1.06	2.38	0.025
C-Joint pain³
IBS criteria	8.2	4.36	15.61	< 0.001
Screening for mental disorders	2.3	1.20	4.38	0.002

CI confidence interval; IBS irritable bowel syndrome; PR prevalence ratio
¹Additional variables used to adjust the model: age, occupation, smoking, alcohol use disorder, violence, abdominal surgery, contraceptive use, abnormal menstruation, dispareunia, parity, cardiovascular disease, cancer, psychiatric disorder, migraine/chronic headache, lombalgia, constipation, distension, irritable bowel syndrome, sleep disturbance
²Additional variables used to adjust the model: body mass index, illicit drug use, violence, abnormal menstruation, abdominal surgery, migraine/chronic headache, irritative urinary symptoms, distension
³Additional variables used to adjust the model: irritative urinary symptoms, violence victim, sleep disturbance

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