A Study On Knowledge & Awareness Of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Among Female Students Of Public And Private Medical Colleges In Dhaka

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.