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A pre-formed, validated questionnaire was used to record the details. Descriptive statistics was used to report the findings.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"j_ijamh-2018-0166_abs_004_w2aab3b7c14b1b6b1aab1c15b3Aa\">\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Of 965 young patients with mean (SD) age 20.64 (2.1) years, 27 (2.79 %) were aware of an entity called PCOS. Awareness among adolescents with PCOS was 25.9 % (7\/27). All aware patients belonged to the urban sector with professionals constituting around 48%, of which 11% were students. The major source of information among aware patients was from doctors (40.7%), and friends and Internet (25.9%); rest being from books, newspapers, and teachers. Majority (70%) were aware that diet restriction and exercise were the primary modalities of treatment, whereas, only 3.7% knew about the role of contraceptive pills in PCOS.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"j_ijamh-2018-0166_abs_005_w2aab3b7c14b1b6b1aab1c15b4Aa\">\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Awareness regarding PCOS among the young women is very low mainly in the rural set up. Doctors and health staffs should play a major role in spreading awareness of the entity to prevent long term complications.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1515\/ijamh-2018-0166","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,8]],"date-time":"2020-06-08T07:19:30Z","timestamp":1591600770000},"page":"123-126","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["Awareness and opinion about polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) among young women: a developing country perspective"],"prefix":"10.1515","volume":"33","author":[{"given":"Saubhagya Kumar","family":"Jena","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology , AIIMS , Bhubaneswar, 751019 , India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Lipsa","family":"Mishra","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology , AIIMS , Bhubaneswar , India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sushree Samiksha","family":"Naik","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology , AIIMS , Bhubaneswar , India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Shahnawaz","family":"Khan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology , AIIMS , Bhubaneswar , India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"374","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"2025112723574578705_j_ijamh_2018-0166_ref_001_w2aab3b7c14b1b6b1ab2b1b1Aa","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Hart R, Hickey M, Franks S. 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