Women with vulvodynia: awareness and knowledge of its care among student healthcare staff

Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences
Minna TörnäväT Suominen

Abstract

Many women with vulvodynia are women of fertile age, and this syndrome may cause many physical and psychosexual functional disorders. Women with vulvodynia often find that healthcare professionals seem to demonstrate a lack of awareness about the syndrome and its care. These issues have not been previously studied among student healthcare staff. To investigate awareness and knowledge about vulvodynia and its care among staff in the student healthcare sector in Finland. The study design was cross sectional. A survey instrument called 'Awareness and knowledge of vulvodynia and its care' was developed for this study and was used for data collection. The data were collected from a web-based survey conducted with student healthcare professionals (N = 191, n = 79) in all 13 student healthcare units in Finland. Descriptive statistical methods were used to describe the connections between the factors associated with awareness of vulvodynia and its care. Ethical standards were followed throughout the study. The primary results of the study indicated that the respondents had somewhat good awareness of how to identify vulvodynia and somewhat poor awareness of the treatments for vulvodynia. Participants' awareness of the meaning of encount...Continue Reading

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