427108

Knowledge and Self - Reported Practices of Nursing Students regarding the Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome

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Last updated: 11 May 2025

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Community Health Nursing

Abstract

Background: Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOs)is one of the most endocrine disorders of females in reproductive age that is accompanied with undesirable metabolic, reproductive, endocrine, and psychological manifestations. The aim of this study is to assess knowledge and self-reported practices of nursing students regarding polycystic ovarian syndrome. Method: A descriptive cross-sectional study design was utilized to accomplish this study. A purposive sample of 420female nursing students in the first level, Faculty of Nursing. Three tools were developed by the researcher for collecting the data of this study as the following: socio-demographic and economic characteristics of nursing students, knowledge, and self-reported practices of nursing students regarding polycystic ovarian syndrome. Results indicated that 87.4% and 89.5% of nursing students had poor knowledge and self-reported practices regarding polycystic ovarian syndrome respectively. The researcher concludes that almost all nursing students have poor level of knowledge and self-reported practices regarding polycystic ovarian syndrome respectively. Finally, the researcher recommended a continuous health education program regarding polycystic ovarian syndrome of nursing students.

DOI

10.21608/mnj.2024.271862.1385

Keywords

Keywords: Knowledge, Practices, Nursing, Students, Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome

Authors

First Name

Abeer

Last Name

Nagy

MiddleName

Ahmed

Affiliation

Demonstrator of Community Health Nursing Department Faculty of Nursing – Mansoura University

Email

abeernagy@mans.edu.eg

City

Kafr El sheik

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First Name

samia

Last Name

Abdel-mouthy

MiddleName

Mahmoud

Affiliation

Assistant Professor of Community Health Nursing Faculty of Nursing- Mansoura University

Email

samiaaa@mans.edu.eg

City

El Mansoura

Orcid

-

First Name

hanan

Last Name

gado

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

community health nursing, Mansoura university

Email

h_gado@yahoo.com

City

El Mansoura

Orcid

-

Volume

11

Article Issue

3

Related Issue

55633

Issue Date

2024-01-01

Receive Date

2024-03-05

Publish Date

2024-05-01

Print ISSN

2735-4121

Online ISSN

2735-413X

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427,108

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1,468

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Publication Title

Mansoura Nursing Journal

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https://mnj.journals.ekb.eg/

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Knowledge and Self - Reported Practices of Nursing Students regarding the Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome

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11 May 2025