Primary Healthcare

Biography

Biography: Gülnaz Karatay

Abstract

Objective: To evaluate reproductive health and influencing factors of female student who staying a dormitory of credit and dormitories agency. Methods: This descriptive type of research was conducted in a dormitory with 465 female students between June 20 to 25, 2015 period. Research data were collected with face to face interview technique using genital health status of female students and ınfluencing factor questionnaires. The obtained data were analyzed on SPSS database using number, percentages and Chi-square significance test. Results: The students whose average age is 1.74+21:42 stated that 60.6% of them take a bath once a week, 41.2% of them change their underwear twice a week, 18.7% of them don’t take bath during menstruation and 47.5% of them use daily pad. It was seen that 72.7% of the students didn’t wash their hands before entering to toilet and 38.5% of them didn’t make their genital area cleaninig properly. In the last one year period when students stay at dormitory, students expressed that 69.7% of them experienced burning and pain while urinating, 72.9% of them experienced the problem of itchy vaginal discharge like white cheese cut, 20.9% of them stated expreincing the problem of foul-smelling discharge with green-yellow color; the majority of students who have vaginal discharge expressed that they didn’t go to doctor. Conclusion: It was seen that the girls remaining in the dormitory had some problems related genital health and hygiene.