Keywords
vaginal prolapse
conservative treatment
pessar
quality of life
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Abstract
Objective: To assess the improvement in the quality of life of patients undergoing treatment with a pessary to correct vaginal dystopias, as well as to assess which domains of life had the greatest impact. Methods: An observational, cross-sectional and descriptive study was carried out with patients who used a pessary as a conservative treatment option for vaginal dystopias and are being followed up at a regional hospital in the Federal District. Results: Three patients who met the proposed inclusion criteria for this study were included. There was a significant improvement in domains related to physical/social limitations (from 21 to 0 points) and emotions (44 to 0), which were the ones that had better performances. The domains referring to the limitations of daily activities and personal relationships remained unchanged. And the domains related to general health perception (from 61 to 44 points), impact of prolapse (from 46 to 33 points), sleep/energy (from 12 to 4 points) and severity of symptoms (from 20 to 10 points), had a reasonable improvement. Conclusion: It is concluded that there was an improvement in the quality of life of patients after six months of follow-up of conservative treatment of genital dystopia with a pessary.
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