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“A STUDY TO ASSESS THE KNOWLEDGE REGARDING UTERINE FIBROIDS AMONG WOMEN IN REPRODUCTIVE AGE GROUP FROM THE SELECTED AREAS OF PUNE CITY IN A VIEW TO DEVELOP A PAMPHLET.”

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Vaishali Atul Gaikwad, Josena Saji, Jinsa Saji, Shravani Jadhav, Justin K Abraham, Abasaheb Gochade
» doi: 10.48047/ecb/2023.12.7.230

Abstract

One of the conditionaffecting in women of reproductive age is uterine fibroid. Heavy menstrual bleeding, infertility are the most common symptoms of uterine fibroid. More than 70% of women were having uterine fibroid and are symptomatic for 30% of women. There are two surgeries done for uterine fibroid they are, myomectomy and hysterectomy. About 80%-90% had done myomectomy and 33% of women need to do the surgery with in 5 years, because of the new growth of fibroids. Myomectomy means it is to remove uterine fibroid and hysterectomy is the procedure that remove a part or all of your uterus2.The present study title: A study to assess the knowledge regarding uterine fibroids among women in reproductive age group from the selected areas of pune city in a view to develop a pamphlet.Objectives: To assess the knowledge regarding uterine fibroid among reproductive age women. To associate the findings with selected demographic variables. Method: A non-experimental exploratory design was undertaken while the approach utilized was quantitative. 200 samples were collected from the community area for the study. The tool consist of 27 items of two sections( demographic variables and self-structured questionnaire ). Result: In this study, 12% reproductive age women having good knowledge, 64.5% are having average knowledge and 23.5% are having poor knowledge regarding uterine fibroid. Conclusion: This study shows that majority of the respodents are having average knowledge about uterine fibroids. However, there is still need to upgrade the knowledge of uterine fibroids among reproductive age women

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