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Health-related quality of life in Iranian women with polycystic ovary syndrome: a qualitative study
BACKGROUND: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is associated with a range of challenging symptoms which impact patient’s lives. Iranian women with PCOS are likely to face a number of unique difficulties given particular societal and cultural norms for women. Understanding health-related quality of lif...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4666094/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26620588 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12905-015-0272-4 |
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author | Taghavi, Seyed Abdolvahab Bazarganipour, Fatemeh Hugh-Jones, Siobhan Hosseini, Nazafarin |
author_facet | Taghavi, Seyed Abdolvahab Bazarganipour, Fatemeh Hugh-Jones, Siobhan Hosseini, Nazafarin |
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description | BACKGROUND: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is associated with a range of challenging symptoms which impact patient’s lives. Iranian women with PCOS are likely to face a number of unique difficulties given particular societal and cultural norms for women. Understanding health-related quality of life (HRQoL) from a patients’perspective is critical to developing the appropriate support interventions. The present study aimed to generate an in-depthunderstanding of HRQoL Iranian women with PCOS. METHODS: Twenty Iranian women were interviewed and data was subjected to thematic analysis. RESULTS: Women reported substantial effects of PCOS on their quality of life, Themes generated from the data related to sexual - physical problems (An unsexualised self: loss, change and pain; and Being pained and painful); exposure and nvasion: the rejecting and invading social world (Concealing and Avoiding and Public property: public scrutiny), diminished self and diminished life (Infertile as inferior and Exhausted mind andbody) respectively. CONCLUSION: PCOS is a physical - sexual, psychological and social syndrome; therefore, it is necessary to taking a more holistic approach to patient care beyond treating physical symptoms. |
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spelling | pubmed-46660942015-12-02 Health-related quality of life in Iranian women with polycystic ovary syndrome: a qualitative study Taghavi, Seyed Abdolvahab Bazarganipour, Fatemeh Hugh-Jones, Siobhan Hosseini, Nazafarin BMC Womens Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is associated with a range of challenging symptoms which impact patient’s lives. Iranian women with PCOS are likely to face a number of unique difficulties given particular societal and cultural norms for women. Understanding health-related quality of life (HRQoL) from a patients’perspective is critical to developing the appropriate support interventions. The present study aimed to generate an in-depthunderstanding of HRQoL Iranian women with PCOS. METHODS: Twenty Iranian women were interviewed and data was subjected to thematic analysis. RESULTS: Women reported substantial effects of PCOS on their quality of life, Themes generated from the data related to sexual - physical problems (An unsexualised self: loss, change and pain; and Being pained and painful); exposure and nvasion: the rejecting and invading social world (Concealing and Avoiding and Public property: public scrutiny), diminished self and diminished life (Infertile as inferior and Exhausted mind andbody) respectively. CONCLUSION: PCOS is a physical - sexual, psychological and social syndrome; therefore, it is necessary to taking a more holistic approach to patient care beyond treating physical symptoms. BioMed Central 2015-11-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4666094/ /pubmed/26620588 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12905-015-0272-4 Text en © Taghavi et al. 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Taghavi, Seyed Abdolvahab Bazarganipour, Fatemeh Hugh-Jones, Siobhan Hosseini, Nazafarin Health-related quality of life in Iranian women with polycystic ovary syndrome: a qualitative study |
title | Health-related quality of life in Iranian women with polycystic ovary syndrome: a qualitative study |
title_full | Health-related quality of life in Iranian women with polycystic ovary syndrome: a qualitative study |
title_fullStr | Health-related quality of life in Iranian women with polycystic ovary syndrome: a qualitative study |
title_full_unstemmed | Health-related quality of life in Iranian women with polycystic ovary syndrome: a qualitative study |
title_short | Health-related quality of life in Iranian women with polycystic ovary syndrome: a qualitative study |
title_sort | health-related quality of life in iranian women with polycystic ovary syndrome: a qualitative study |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4666094/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26620588 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12905-015-0272-4 |
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