Didi D.M. Braat

No ORCID on file · 10 papers in corpus
observational 2026

Research question: What is the current time to diagnosis among patients with endometriosis in the Netherlands, and what factors influence this time? Design: A retrospective questionnaire study was conducted in 11 hospitals in the Netherland…

rct 2025
·doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-7907021/v1

Abstract Research Question: Endometriosis-related chronic pain leads to impaired health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Endometriosis surgery can improve chronic pain and HRQoL, but not to the same level as healthy women. Cognitive beh…

2025
·doi:10.2139/ssrn.5319096
observational 2025
Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) ·doi:10.1007/s43032-025-01899-3

INTRODUCTION: Endometriosis causes severe and chronic pain leading to impaired Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL). While endometriosis surgery does improve pain intensity, psychological factors have an important role in pain perception.…

observational 2025
·doi:10.1016/j.jeud.2025.100138

• Endometriosis is associated with long diagnostic delay. • A smartphone app could help to speed up the diagnostic process. • The Q1.6 app is user-friendly and collects real-time data on one’s menstrual cycle. • It differentiates between pa…

other 2021
BMJ open ·doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2021-054896

INTRODUCTION: Endometriosis can cause chronic pain and subfertility thereby negatively affecting quality of life (QoL). Surgical removal of endometriosis lesions leads to improved health-related QoL, although not to the level of QoL of heal…

qualitative 2021
Reproductive BioMedicine Online ·doi:10.1016/j.rbmo.2021.01.010

RESEARCH QUESTION: Would adding cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to the treatment of endometriosis improve the quality of life of patients suffering from endometriosis-associated pain? The aim of this study was to identify if patients be…

lab-animal 2019
Laboratory animals ·doi:10.1177/0023677219856915

Chronic pain and subfertility are the main symptoms of concern in women with endometriosis. In order to find new therapeutic options to suppress the pain, translational animal models are indispensable. We have developed a new automated, exp…

observational 2017
Fertility and sterility ·doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2017.07.016

OBJECTIVE: To explore how pain intensity and pain cognition are related to health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in women with endometriosis. DESIGN: Cross-sectional questionnaire-based survey. SETTING: Multidisciplinary referral center.…

case-report 1997
Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde

Five women, aged 31, 26, 31, 34, and 28 years, became pregnant after oocyte donation and in-vitro fertilization. One was a carrier of Leber's optical atrophy, three had had an early menopause (in two because of chromosomal abnormalities), a…