quality of life in patients with endometriosis in tehran in 2009

background: symptoms of this with an overall negative impact on the psychosocial parameters in the patients,leading to a significant reduction of health-related quality of life. the aim of this study was toevaluate health-related quality of life in patients with endometriosis.endometriosis is a estrogen- depended and chronic gynecological disease. themethodshospitals affiliated tehran university of medical sciences, with non randomized sampling method.health-related quality of life in patients with endometriosis was investigated with endometriosishealth profile (ehp-30) questionnaire in 5 scales including pain, emotional well-being, control andpowerlessness, social support and self imaging scales. data analyzed by descriptive statistics in spss(15) software.: this cross-sectional study was performed on women with endometriosis in severalresultsquestionnaire domains was 36.20 to 46.73 and in modular questionnaire domains was 34.85to50.55.most aspects affected by disease were psychological and pain in core questionnaire andinfertility in modular questionnaire. the least affected by the disease was self image domain.: mean age of 100 participants in this study was 39.5±7.54 years. quality of life scores in coreconclusionthe domains of psychological and pain. emphasizing on life quality of patients using appropriatemedication therapy and psychotherapy is necessary and important.: our study showed that endometriosis impairs health related quality of life, especially in