Gynecological examination and Turki̇sh soci̇ety

Gynecologicalexamination is stillperceived as an embarrassingsituation in oursociety.Thissituationmaysometimesgo as far as thewomanwhoneedsto be examineddoes not wantto be examined. Thisstudyaimstoprovidethenecessarysuggestionsforthegynecologicalexaminationto stop beingtaboo in oursocietyandtodeterminethefactorsaffectingthepsychology of womenregardinggynecologicalexamination, as well as torevealtheexpectations of thesewomenfromgynecologicalexaminationandhealthcarepersonnel. Theuniverse of thestudyconsisted of 300 womenwhoappliedtoIstanbul Büyükçekmece PhysicianChief Mustafa Behçet FamilyHealth Center. NCSS (NumberCruncher Statistical System) 2007 (Kaysville, Utah, USA) program wasusedforstatisticalanalysis. Whileevaluatingthestudydata, in additiontodescriptivestatisticalmethods (Average, StandardDeviation, Median, Frequency, Ratio, Minimum, Maximum), thedistribution of the data wasevaluatedusingtheShapiro-Wilk Test. Mann-Whitney U test wasusedtocomparetwogroupsthatdid not show normal distribution of quantitativedata. Spearman'scorrelationwasusedtoshowthecorrelation of quantitativedata. Significancewasevaluated at p <0.01 and p <0.05 levels. It has beenobservedthatalmosthalf of thewomenpreferthegynecologicalexaminerto be female (50.2%). Duringtheexamination, it is themajoritywho do not wantanyone (69.2% nobody, 30.8%).