To study the impact of socioeconomic and demographic condition on various gynecological disorders and their mental health in urban and rural women

Abstract

Background: Mental health and reproductive health are closely related. Physical health could be assessed with signs and symptoms but to assess mental health specific techniques are to be utilized of which questioning is one. The present study was undertaken to check the impact of different socioeconomicclassesanddemographicconditionsofurbanandruralwomenontheirgynecological health and mental health

Methodology: This comparative cross-sectional prospective study conducted in two tertiary care  hospital  i.e sumandeep vidhyapeeth hospital in Vadodara. The study sample size was 300 with 150 participants from each site.

Result:Age group of 31-35 (20%)years women was majorly affected at the urban site while at the rural site the age group was 21-25 years (20%). The affected socioeconomic group in urban settings was upper middle class(30%)and lower middle class(24%)and in a rural area it was upper lower class(56.7%).The incidence of menorrhagia(22.6%)was higher in rural area while UTI(28%) was higher in urban area. The general health questionnaire 12 was utilized to evaluate participant’s mental health. The average score of General Health Questionnaire-12 (GHQ-12) was 17.17 in rural part while 20.26 in urban part.

Conclusion: Thus the reported average score of GHQ-12 shows an added mental aggressor in urban women compared to rural women. Correlation between socio economic class and mental health could be found in rural area but in urban parts it could not be due to non-compliance.