" ASSESS THE LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE REGARDING POLYCYSTIC OVARIAN SYNDROME (PCOS) AMONG NURSING STUDENTS."

Objectives: 1. To assess the level of knowledge regarding PCOS among nursing students. 2. To assess the attitude regarding PCOS among nursing students. 3. To find out the correlation between Knowledge and attitude regardingPCOS among nursing students. 4. To find out the association between the levels of knowledge regarding PCOSwith their selected demographic variables. 5. To find out the association between the attitude regarding PCOSwith their selected demographic variables. Design: A non-experimental descriptive research design (Cross-sectional) was used. Setting: This study was conducted in Rohilkhand College and School of Nursing, Bareilly, U.P. Participants: 154 Nursing Students were selected for the study. Intervention: A structure questionnaire and Likert scale were developed as a tool for data collection. The data was collected to assess the level of knowledge and attitude regarding Polycystic ovarian syndrome. Measurements: The data collected were analysed and interpreted by using descriptive and inferential statistics. The findings were: Majority of thenursing students were between the age group of 19 years to 21 years (49.1%/). Most of the nursing students were female (85.1%). Maximum of the nursing students were from rural area (51.3%).Maximum of the nursing students were vegetarian (62.3%). Majority of the nursing students were having no previous knowledge regarding PCOS (61.7%). Most pf the nursing students were having no history of PCOS in family (81.2%) and maximum of the nursing students belong to GNM 1st Year.Mean and S.D. of knowledge and attitude regarding PCOS were 9.62 ± 2.778 and 45.28 ± 5.855. The r value was -0.268 and df 152 with p value 0.001 indicated that there is a weak negative relationship between knowledge and attitude score. Fisher’s exact test was performed to find the association between knowledgescore with their selected demographic variables. And it reveals that there is no significant association between knowledge score with Age (12.595, p=0.032), Gender (0.720, p = 0.718), Habitant (3.772, p = 0.489), Dietary habit (5.669, p=0.180), previous knowledge regarding PCOS (0.310, p = 0.915), History of PCOS in family (1.243, p = 0.576) and Class (8.984, p = 0.320).Fisher’s exact test was performed to find the association between Attitudescore with their selected demographic variables. And it reveals that there is no significant association between attitude score with Age (9.949, p=0.078), Gender (0.206, p = 1.00), Habitant (4.490, p = 0.524), Dietary habit (6.394, p=0.151), previous knowledge regarding PCOS (0.250, p = 0.941), History of PCOS in family (1.724, p = 0.398) and Class (10.682, p = 0.122). Conclusion and implication for practice: The knowledge status among Nursing students at Rohilkhand College and School of NursingwereModerate (77.9%), 13.6% of Nursing Students shows inadequate knowledge and 8.4 % of Nursing students shows adequate knowledge. Attitude of Nursing Students regarding PCOS indicates 51.1% of the students had neutral attitude towards PCOS, 40.9% of the students had positive attitude towards PCOS and very small proportion (1.9%) had negative attitude.