Abstract:
Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is an endocrine disorder which affects the adolescent
girls. It affects 5% to 10% of women in their reproductive age. Awareness and accurate
diagnosis is the first step in managing PCOS as it improves quality of life of the patient. The
study was conducted to assess the knowledge on PCOS among the medical students. The
study was performed on 400 female medical students among aged 18 to 28, from August
2017 to October, 2017 using a standard 3 pages structured questionnaire. This study is done
by collecting data, containing different questions and then those data was analyzed by using
Microsoft excel.
In my study, 400 female medical students were analyzed regarding the knowledge and
awareness of PCOS. Students were mostly aged between 21-23 years (49.25%). Among 400
female medical students a majority of the population (66.94%) minimally aware about
PCOS, 2.20% were very aware about PCOS, a majority of the population (48.87%) had no
idea about PCOS. In this study maximum 22% population identified difficulty of pregnancy
as symptoms of PCOS, 19% identified irregular peroids and minimum 4% of population
identified depression as symptoms of PCOS among study of population. Of the respondents,
76.75% perceived that infertility is a major complications, 10.25% population thought that
endometrial cancer can arise from PCOS. In this study the prevalence of PCOS was 22.25%
among 400 students. Among the PCOS affected population, 50.56% had family history of
PCOS. In the study,maximum 43.82% patients were diagnosed by sonogram and minimum
14.61% patients were identified by androgen level. From the study,maximum 33.71% were
identified with frustation and minimum 2.25% were experienced hopeless. From the study,
maximum 6.65% patients were treated for infertility ,minimum 1.2% patients received
treatment for hirsutism. Of this study, maximum 82.02% patients had information of PCOS
from doctor. In this study , In this study, maximum 55% population identified medication as
a treatment option of PCOS. In the present study demonstrated the level of knowledge about
PCOS was insufficient among medical students in Dhaka; cosequently more educational
programes,conferences,awareness programmes ,etc should be designed to provide
comprehensive information and awareness on PCOS among the future doctors.
Description:
This thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Pharmacy (B.Pharm) in East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.