Chair of Health Sciences, Faculty of Applied Sciences, WSB University, Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland.
Chair of Physiotherapy, Department of Kinesitherapy and Special Methods, School of Health Sciences in Katowice, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland.
BMC Womens Health. 2021 Dec 7;21(1):404. doi: 10.1186/s12905-021-01556-2.
Insufficient knowledge about endometriosis among women is one of the causes of its delayed diagnoses. Due to the elusiveness of symptoms, the most important component of early detection is proper and exhaustive knowledge. The objective of the study was to assess Polish women's awareness of endometriosis.
The pilot studies were performed with the participation of 200 women, in an average age of 33.65 years (SD = 11.45), who completed the authors' questionnaire related to self-assessment of the level of knowledge about the disease, its symptoms, late effects and directions of a remediation procedure. The statistical analysis was performed using the IBM SPSS Statistics 25 suite. It included a frequency analysis, a one-way analysis of variance ANOVA, a single variable regression analysis and Student's t-test for independent samples.
Almost 84% of women had heard about endometriosis, while only 1/3 of them considered their knowledge sufficient or good. Very good knowledge was declared by 4.5% of women, while 16.1% of participants had never heard about it. The level of knowledge was significantly higher (p = 0.001) among women with medical education. Polish women acquired their knowledge mainly from the Internet and the experience of other women. The reasons identified by women were the still existing 'taboo' related to menstruation, the absence of information in the media and education in schools, which is critical according to 92.4% of women.
Polish women's level of knowledge about endometriosis is insufficient, which we should strive to improve. Higher awareness is presented by women with medical education, and the higher the level of knowledge, the larger a woman's interest in healthy behaviour.
女性对子宫内膜异位症的认识不足是导致其诊断延迟的原因之一。由于症状的隐匿性，早期发现的最重要组成部分是适当和详尽的知识。本研究的目的是评估波兰女性对子宫内膜异位症的认识。
在 200 名平均年龄为 33.65 岁（SD=11.45）的女性的参与下进行了初步研究，她们完成了作者关于自我评估对疾病、其症状、晚期影响和补救程序方向的认识水平的问卷。统计分析使用 IBM SPSS Statistics 25 套件进行。它包括频率分析、单向方差分析 ANOVA、单变量回归分析和独立样本学生 t 检验。
近 84%的女性听说过子宫内膜异位症，而只有 1/3的女性认为自己的知识足够或良好。非常好的知识由 4.5%的女性宣称，而 16.1%的参与者从未听说过。在接受过医学教育的女性中，知识水平显著更高（p=0.001）。波兰女性主要通过互联网和其他女性的经验获得知识。女性认为的原因是仍然存在与月经有关的“禁忌”、媒体和学校教育中缺乏信息，这是 92.4%的女性认为至关重要的原因。
波兰女性对子宫内膜异位症的认识不足，我们应努力提高。医学教育程度较高的女性对子宫内膜异位症的认识水平较高，知识水平越高，女性对健康行为的兴趣就越大。
