Novel insights into patient's thoughts about their body image in abdominal wall hernia.

Background: Abdominal wall hernias (AWH) are frequently large and deforming. Despite this, little is known about how AWH impact upon body image. This study is the first study to qualitatively examine patients' subjective lived experiences of how AWH affects their body image.

Abdominal wall hernia and mental health: patients lived experiences and implications for patient care.

Background: Abdominal wall hernia (AWH) affects mental health and mental health questions are frequently included within Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMS) for this patient population. However, these questions have not been informed by the subjective lived experiences of mental health in AWH patients. This study is the first to qualitatively examine how AWH affects patients' mental health.

Preoperative application of the Enzian classification for endometriosis (The cEnzian Study): A prospective international multicenter study.

Objective: To assess the diagnostic performance of preoperative application of the Enzian classification (cEnzian) using surgical findings as reference standard.

Design: A prospective international non-interventional study.

Setting: Twelve endometriosis centres in four European countries (Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Czech Republic).

Health-related quality of life in abdominal wall hernia: let's ask patients what matters to them?

Introduction: Quality of Life (QoL) is an important consideration in patients with abdominal wall hernia (AWH). What matters to patients and their everyday experience living with AWH may depend on a variety of personal, psychological, social and environmental factors. At present, no study has addressed what is important to this particular group of patients by asking the patients themselves.