Impact of a Nutritional Education Intervention on knowledge and practices of women with polycystic ovarian syndrome visiting Tertiary Hospital of Sialkot city: A quasi experimental study

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: PCOS is a complex illness. It is difficult to understand and explain the core mechanism. Therefore, treatments that target clinical symptoms rather than cure the syndrome are not miraculous treatments.In addition, the inclusion of nutritional education has significant implications, as these activities related to gender knowledge and athletic pictorial and linguistic support in women suffering from polycystic ovary syndrome are helpful. OBJECTIVES :The objectives for the given research are to assess the baseline knowledge and practices of women with PCOS visiting the public Tertiary hospital of Sialkot city.To assess the impact of a nutritional education intervention on knowledge and practices of women with PCOS visiting the public Tertiary hospital of Sialkot city.To find association of socio demographic factors with impact on knowledge and practices of women with PCOS. METHODOLOGY: The purpose of using a Quasi-Experimental study design is to analyse the outcomes of the intervention. Tertiary hospital of Sialkot city is study setting for the investigation of the impacts of the nutritional education intervention on knowledge and practices of women with polycystic ovarian syndrome.Sample size of 27 is calculated by using G power of 80% power -G Power.Only 20 patients were recruited for study due to low response rate .So 20 women with polycystic ovarian syndrome from Gynae OPD of tertiary hospital sialkot city. The data was collected before and after applying ingtervention.Descriptive and inferential statistics techniques were used for analysis.For checking impact on knowledge and practices of nutritional education intervention Pair t test was used , for checking association of sociodemographics with pre and post intervention data ANOVA and independent t test were used. RESULTS: out of 20 participants with the polycystic ovarian syndrome, there was significant difference of means . For checking impact on knowledge and practices 2 variables were computed as pretestcompute and posttestcompute on SPSS. Paired T test was run to check mean in pre and post test data. Nutritional education intervention showed that mean (M=8.75, SD=2.531) in pretestcompute is lower as compare to posttestcompute (M=16.45, SD=1.932). There was significnat differnce in before and after intervention. 4 CONCLUSIONS : Basline knowledge and practices about diet for PCOS of patients is assesed. The impact of education intervention showed significant improvement in the knowledge and practices of patients. Hence nutrition education intervention is effective and showed improvement in knowledge and practices of women with PCOS and will help to manage the disease and create awareness for prevention of other metabolic syndromes in later part of life. KEYWORDS: Annual incidence, hyperandrogenic , nutritional intervention , Oligomenorrhea , Polycystic ovary syndrome.