@article{ref1,
title="Knowledge, attitude and perception about obstetric fistula by Cameroonian women",
journal="Progres en Urologie",
year="2008",
author="Tebeu, P-m and de Bernis, L. and Boisrond, L. and Le Duc, A. and Mbassi, A. A. and Rochat, C-h",
volume="18",
number="6",
pages="379-389",
abstract="INTRODUCTION: This study seeks to identify what the women who live in Maroua Cameroon know and think about obstetric fistula. POPULATION AND METHOD: It is a single hospital, cross-sectional, descriptive and comparative study. Ninety-nine women in the maternity service of the Maroua Provincial Hospital were interrogated on obstetric fistula between May and July 2005, by enquirers who were trained health agents using a questionnaire which required both closed and open answers. RESULTS: The women who had no previous knowledge of it were generally the illiterate (41.7% compared to 18.8%). More than a third of the women who had an idea of the fistula do not know that there is a surgical treatment for it. Whether they had the previous information on fistula or received it from us, one-tenth of the women suggested that suicide was the solution to fistula where as one-third of the women suggested that a patient suffering from fistula should be isolated. CONCLUSION AND INTERPRETATION: Illiteracy contributes significantly to the lack of knowledge of this affection. The population has a poor perception and a strong negative attitude towards obstetric fistula as they see isolation or suicide as the solution to it.<p /><p>Language: fr</p>",
language="fr",
issn="1166-7087",
doi="10.1016/j.purol.2008.03.020",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.purol.2008.03.020"
}