Background:
Endometriosis (the presence of endometrial-like tissue outside the uterus) is a chronic disease associated with pelvic pain and subfertility. Prevalence rates in the general pop-ulation are unknown, because a definitive diagnosis is estab-lished only at laparoscopy. The lack of strong information about the impact of endometriosis world-wide led us to initiate this study. The aim of this study is about a Survey on
Knowledge of
Endometriosis in High School Girl Students and Their Mothers in High Schools in Tehran.Materials and Methods: This cross sectional study was car-ried out on 1580 high school girl’s student and 480 their moth-ers in Tehran, capital of Iran from August to October 2017. We considered Tehran as 5 geographic regions (north, south, east, west and center) and selected schools from each of these re-gions randomly. Students and their mothers answered a self-administered questionnaire about knowledge of endometriosis separately. Statistical analyses were carried out with R version 3.2.1. Main analyses were multilevel analyses.Results: In this study, the average age of students and their mothers were 16.97 ± 0.84 (Mean ± SD) and 45.19 ± 5.02, re-spectively. The results of this study showed that only 7 students (0.5%) and 83 mothers (17%) had knowledge about endome-triosis. All girls got their information about endometriosis from their mothers and study. The results of this study showed that knowledge of student about endometriosis was directly and sig-nificantly related to mother’s knowledge about endometriosis (P <0.001).Conclusion: Findings of this study indicated that the informa-tion of students and their mothers about endometriosis was low. However, it can be necessity of providing health instructions, especially genital health and proper nutrition before and af-ter puberty, also correcting false beliefs in mothers and girls through classes and educational programs (brochures or Inter-net) are essential.