Background: Being a healthy woman is important to have good reproductive health and to have a healthy baby. Symptomatic vaginal discharge in the women of reproductive age group is responsible for 5-10 million OPD visits per year throughout the world. Hence; we planned the present study to assess vaginal discharge among rural women.

Materials & Methods: A total of 100 subjects were enrolled in the present study. Detail demographic data of all the subjects was obtained. A self-framed questionnaire was prepared are complete history of present illness and past medical history of all the subjects was obtained. All the results were recorded in Microsoft excel sheet and were analyzed SPSS software. Chi- square test was used for evaluation of significance.

Results: Non-significant results were obtained while assessing the age-wise distribution of subjects. Among the 100 subjects, 80 subjects were married while 8 subjects were widow and 12 subjects were divorced. 80 subjects were unemployed and 20 subjects were employed. Anxiety was present as a risk factor in 69 subjects with vaginal discharge. Significant results were obtained while assessing the marital status and presence of anxiety as a risk factor for vaginal discharge.

Conclusion: Knowledge of risk factors of vaginal discharge could help in reducing its incidence.

Keywords: Discharge, Vaginal, Women.

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Dr Kheta Ram Soni

Senior Resident, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Government Medical College, Barmer, Rajasthan, India