McKernan LC

ORCID: 0000-0001-9419-8502 · 4 papers in corpus
other 2025
Women's health reports (New Rochelle, N.Y.) ·doi:10.1089/whr.2024.0152

BACKGROUND: Although female sexual dysfunction (FSD) and low sexual self-efficacy are common in patients with interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome (IC/BPS), existing measures of these constructs do not fully capture unique challenges…

other 2021
Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) ·doi:10.1093/pm/pnab018

OBJECTIVE: To examine the impact of educational materials for chronic overlapping pain conditions (COPCs), the feasibility of delivering materials online, and to explore its impact on self-reported self-management applications at 3-month fo…

other 2020
Journal of Psychosomatic Research ·doi:10.1016/j.jpsychores.2020.110164

OBJECTIVE: Chronic pain and borderline personality disorder (BPD) are commonly comorbid and jointly associated with increased symptoms of both disorders and clinical and functional impairment. Little is known, however, about specific links …

observational 2019
The Clinical journal of pain ·doi:10.1097/ajp.0000000000000689

OBJECTIVE: Evidence supports high rates of co-occurrence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and chronic pain disorders involving central sensitization (CS). The nature of this relationship, however, remains relatively unexplored. In th…