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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS 3UcbR0xA. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Researchers have failed to find a consistent association between childhood victimization and vulvodynia, a debilitating, unexplained vulvar pain condition. However, selection bias associated with case ascertainment, and differential reporting bias between clinic-based cases and controls, may explain in part the inconsistent findings. In 2000-2003, the authors identified 125 women experiencing symptoms of vulvar pain consistent with vulvodynia and 125 age-and community-matched controls from the Boston, Massachusetts-area general population. Telephone-administered questionnaires were used to obtain medical, psychiatric, and reproductive histories. Self-administered surveys assessed childhood exposure (age
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