answer to uneducated women and pt

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‘significantly’ is used here as a statistical term indicating that there was a difference between the two groups. I believe you are reading too much into this result. It only means that in this particular study, it seems that more educated women benefited less. Why did we find this result and what does it mean? One cannot say with just one study. It may be a chance result that we will never find again in another study; we don’t know yet. However, if you look at the degree of education of the sample, the majority of women was well educated and had the equivalent of an undergraduate degree. This has nothing to do with education about vulvar pain or about physical therapy! It is general education (college, university, etc.).

Good luck,

Sophie Bergeron

Sophie Bergeron, Ph.D.

Professeure agrégée/Associate Professor

Département de sexologie/Department of Sexology

Université du Québec à Montréal

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Montréal, Québec

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HI Carolyn...

Hon I never thought it had anything to do with knowledge of vulvar pain, that was the farthest thing from my mind anyway. I took it literally to mean regular education levels as it said:

''Successful patients were significantly less educated than nonsuccessful patients.''

So apparently in that paper those less educated were more successful with PT, and how they stressed 'significantly less', and I still say I can't understand their reasoning for even bringing that up other than to make the point those less educated are more open to it or susceptible to a placebo effect perhaps and so they had better results?

But come to think of it even if it were those who are more educated in V pain and what's going on... IF that's what they meant (and I don't think they did at all) It still leads me to the same conclusion, the more you know you won't be successful with PT.. LOL

Oh well, I didn't mean to make an issue out of it, it just didn't sit well with me that's all.

Dee

PS: The article was here if someone wanted to read it again.

On ''PT for Vulvar Vestibulitis pain...improved 51%''

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11995597?ordinalpos=6 & itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

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Dee,

yea I thought the whole thing was rather odd myself thats why I emailed her to get her response.

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HI Carolyn....

I didn't realize you'd written her.... good for you hon. Oh well, so many things we just have to ignore like those who subtlely (or not so subtley) say it's all in our head or some other things we take with a grain of salt.

Hugs

Dee

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The complete article can be found at:

http://www.gynoncochum.ca/client/page1.asp?page=178&clef=101&Clef2=45

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>HI Carolyn...

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>Hon I never thought it had anything to do with knowledge of vulvar pain, that

was the farthest thing from my mind anyway. I took it literally to mean

regular education levels as it said:

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>''Successful patients were significantly less educated than nonsuccessful

patients.''

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>So apparently in that paper those less educated were more successful with PT,

and how they stressed 'significantly less', and I still say I can't understand

their reasoning for even bringing that up other than to make the point those

less educated are more open to it or susceptible to a placebo effect perhaps and

so they had better results?

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>But come to think of it even if it were those who are more educated in V pain

and what's going on... IF that's what they meant (and I don't think they did at

all) It still leads me to the same conclusion, the more you know you won't be

successful with PT.. LOL

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>Oh well, I didn't mean to make an issue out of it, it just didn't sit well with

me that's all.

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>Dee

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>PS: The article was here if someone wanted to read it again.

>On ''PT for Vulvar Vestibulitis pain...improved 51%''

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>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11995597?ordinalpos=6&itool=EntrezSystem2.PE\

ntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

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