Allyson Bontempo, PhD

Today is the first day of Endometriosis Awareness Month! If you are 18+ and an adult with #endo, consider taking part in this 15-minute anonymous #survey. We are attempting to validate a measure to assess patient self-reports of #invalidation within a given healthcare interaction.

When Doctors Dismiss Symptoms, Patients Suffer Lasting Harm A Rutgers Health review of 151 studies finds that minimizing unexplained symptoms sparks shame, trauma and avoidance of care.

Take a peek at this article about our new publication!
www.rutgers.edu/news/when-do...

For Some Women With Serious Physical Ailments, Mental Illness Has Become a Scapegoat Diagnosis Patients with difficult-to-diagnose conditions like endometriosis are often sent home with diagnoses like anxiety or bipolar disorder

Check out this super well written, well-researched article in the Smithsonian, for which I am grateful to have had the opportunity to be interviewed for: www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

It’s really so unfortunate

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Have you ever felt your symptoms were dismissed by a doctor? Consider adopting my new term: symptom invalidation. 📚 Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Thank you Steve! I will definitely take a look. I appreciate it! Hope you’re doing okay.