Internal structure and classification of pelvic floor dysfunction distress by PFDI-20 total score.
Guilherme Tavares de ArrudaDalton Francisco de AndradeJaneisa Franck VirtuosoPublished in: Journal of patient-reported outcomes (2022)
The PFDI-20 has an one-dimensional structure and the distress caused by the presence of PFD symptoms can be classified as mild, moderate and severe. Health professionals and future studies can use our classification to facilitate the understanding of the patient's health status and to obtain other analyses on the severity of the distress of the symptoms of PFD.