An Observational Study Related to Health Related Quality of Life in Women Suffering from PCOS

Doctor of Pharmacy, Gujarat Technological University, Gujarat, India

*Corresponding author: Miss. Megha Patel, Doctor of Pharmacy, Gujarat Technological University, Surdas Chowk, Bochasan, Near Bank of India, Ta: Borsad, Dist: Anand, Gujarat, India, Phone: 9327366588, E-mail: [email protected]

Received Date: March 18, 2025

Published Date: May 13, 2025

Citation: Gajera JS, et al. (2025). An Observational Study Related to Health Related Quality of Life in Women Suffering from PCOS. Mathews J Gynecol Obstet. 9(2):46.

Copyrights: Gajera JS, et al. © (2025).

ABSTRACT

Aim: An observational study related to heath related quality of life in women suffering from PCOS. Objectives: To assess Quality of Life & the impact of symptoms in women Suffering from PCOS. Methodology: This study was initiated after getting the approval from college research committee & Institute Ethics Committee. All patients age between 18-45 years old with PCOS attending to the OPD of our study site, during the study period of 4 months will be including in the study after taking information consent. All the demographic and clinical detail of the patient will be filled in a predesign case report form. To assess quality of life and to assess psychological burden “PCOSQoL 45-57 was used and score of above mention scale is calculated and recorded. Result and Discussion: In our study, we had evaluated each question result from the scale. Each question has the multiple options such as Agree, Highly Agree, Disagree and we had calculated the number of patients and number of percentage form each options of individual question. In overall 6 factors the more agree responses were found in hair and acne disorder (21%) whereas, less number of responses were found in body images (11%) & the highly agree responses were found in Physiological and emotional status (21%) whereas, less number of responses were found in body images (9%) & the more disagree responses were found in obesity and menstrual disorder and (23%) whereas, less number of responses were found in body images (8%). Conclusion: We studied the Quality of Life of PCOS patients. Investigation of the scale of PCOSQoL 45-57 showed that PCOS had impact on their emotions self-embarrassment, self-esteem, feelings of sadness, self-confidences, overall emotional stability. In our study we collect the data of 127 participants in which 102 females were married & 25 females were unmarried, from these we concluded that PCOS is more affected in married females & lesser affected in unmarried females. As per our study we include 6 factors such as, Physiological & Emotional status, Menstrual Irregularities and Infertility, Body Images, Hair Disorder and Acne, Fertility and Sexual life, Obesity and Menstrual Disorder and we found that Hair disorder and Acne is more affecting factor in PCOS Women & in contrast Body image is lesser affecting factor in PCOS women, we concluded it from PCOSQoL 45- 57 Scale.