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Vaginal Discharge: Women's Health seeking Behaviours and Cultural Practices

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dc.contributor.author Ilankoon, I.M.P.S.
dc.contributor.author Goonewardena, C.S.E.
dc.contributor.author Perera, P.P.R.
dc.contributor.author Fernandopulle, R.C.
dc.date.accessioned 2017-03-21T10:27:52Z
dc.date.available 2017-03-21T10:27:52Z
dc.date.issued 2015-06
dc.identifier.citation Ilankoon, I.M.P.S., Goonewardena, C.S.E., Perera, P.P.R., & Fernandopulle, R.C. (2015). Vaginal Discharge: Women's Health seeking Behaviours and Cultural Practices. International Journal of Current Research, 7(6), 17473-17479. en_US, si_LK
dc.identifier.issn 0975-833X
dc.identifier.uri http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/4468
dc.description.abstract Early detection of pathological vaginal discharge is important to prevent complications of underlying diseases which can severely compromise women's health, fertility and survival. A review of the published literature was performed to describe health seeking behaviours and cultural practices related to vaginal discharge among women in reproductive age group. This review involved searching databases using the search terms such as vaginal symptoms/ discharge, reproductive disorders, health seeking, self-management. Twenty six original articles which included in to the study were regarding reproductive tract infections involving women aged 15 to 49 years and published in English between 1990 and 2014. The most commonly reported reproductive tract symptom was vaginal discharge. Majority of women consider stress, body weakness, poor personal hygiene, body heat, eating hot foods and bad luck as causes for vaginal discharge. Women's lack of knowledge regarding the causes leads to inability in differentiating normality of vaginal discharge. Many women expressed that embarrassment, anxiety and shame related to disclosing vaginal discharge leads to use of variety of home remedies. Women's lack of knowledge on the pathological vaginal discharge and use of different cultural practices make them delay in seeking medical advice for pathological vaginal discharge. Culture specific health education programmes and strategies need to be designed to provide effective health care towards prevention of consequences of untreated pathological vaginal discharge. en_US, si_LK
dc.language.iso en en_US, si_LK
dc.subject Vaginal Discharge en_US, si_LK
dc.subject Health seeking behaviours en_US, si_LK
dc.subject Cultural practices en_US, si_LK
dc.subject Self-treatments en_US, si_LK
dc.title Vaginal Discharge: Women's Health seeking Behaviours and Cultural Practices en_US, si_LK
dc.type Article en_US, si_LK


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