Awareness of Polycystic Ovarian Disease: Auxiliary Nurse and Midwife Students’ Perspective

Background: Polycystic Ovarian disease is a metabolic and endocrine condition that affects women in their reproductive years; symptoms include irregular menstruation, tiny ovarian cysts, and elevated androgen levels. Around the world, it affects one in ten women. Infertility, mood swings, hirsutism, obesity, acne, and pattern hair loss are among the issues that women with PCOS may face in addition to aberrant insulin activity. Objectives are to assess the knowledge on polycystic ovarian disease among Auxiliary Nurse and Midwife students studying in selected Nursing college, to associate the knowledge with selected socio demographic variables. Methods: Non experimental descriptive research design was adopted in this study. 30 College students was selected by purposive sampling technique. Structured questionnaire was used to collect the data from the participants. Result: The results explained that most of the girls had good knowledge that is 23 (76.66%) regarding polycystic ovarian disorders. Conclusion: This study findings indicated that, nursing students require proper knowledge on polycystic ovarian disease.