Endometriosis and its relationship to marital status

Abstract EN

Endometriosis is a common chronic gynecological disease with an estimated prevalence of 5–10% among women of reproductive age.

amid to detect if the marital status has a relationship with endometriosis.

material and methods : this was a descriptive cross-sectional study design that involved the use of quantitative methods.

the study was conducted from different through personal interviews with butchers in the city of Derna and its suburbs, (Karssa, Martouba) and collecting questionnaires from them was completed from June 2021 to October 2021.

result : suffer from endometriosis 1390 (75.5%), and suffer from endometriosis 61(3.3 %), and who didn`t have any idea about endometriosis 389(21.1 %), the single who suffer from endometriosis 40(27.4 %), marriage suffers from endometriosis 19(5.5 %), divorced 2(11.

1 %), and widow 0.0 (100.0 %), that means the single who suffer from endometriosis have high percent, and the widow has less percent.

the relationship between marital situation and who suffer from endometriosis that the p-value 0.297 > 0.05, this means there is no relationship between marital situation and who suffer from endometriosis, x2 (1.089), (r) 0.024.

conclusion: the research revealed that endometriosis is not related to marital status and can afflict single women as well.