SOME HYGIENE BEHAVIOURS AND GENITAL INFECTION COMPLAINTS AMONG 15-49 AGED WOMEN IN A SUBURBAN AREA OF ISTANBUL

作者：Onal A Emel^*; Onoglu Nazan; Babaoglu Asya Banu; Ozer Celal; Gungor Gunay

来源：Nobel Medicus, 2011, 7(2): 96-100.

• Personal hygiene
• menstrual hygiene
• genital infection
• women health
• Istanbul

Objective: Genital hygiene is the major component of women's health and is very important for the protection of reproductive health. In this study, it was aimed to determine personal-genital hygiene behaviours, and genital infection complaints of women living in a suburban area of Istanbul.
Material and Method: This cross-sectional, descriptive study was held in a suburban area in Istanbul in May 2007 with 117 15-49 aged women. Demographic characteristics, handwashing behaviours, toilette hygiene behaviours, menstrual hygiene behaviours and genital infection complaints of women interrogated according questionnaires.
Results: Most (99%) of the women were using water and soap while washing hands. In 34% of the participants were washing their hands in more than 14 seconds. The rate of toilette paper usage after each toilette was 84%. The rate of using always hygienic pads was 47% among the women. Eighty four percent of the women were washing their genital area while having their menstruation and 61% were having a bath during the menstruation. The majority of the participants (97%) reported that they were washing their hands after changing pads. It was found that 59% of the women had at least one of the genital infection complaints in the last year The rate of women who described a genital pathologic flow in the course of interview was 50%. There was positive correlation between age and pathologic secretion (Spearman's Rho: 0.29, p: 0.006) and there was statistically significant relation with toilette paper usage and genital pathologic flow complaints (chi(2):8.49; df:2, p: 0.01).
Conclusion: High percentage of workgroup should be more attention to the personal and menstrual hygiene.

• 出版日期2011-8