Abstract:
Background: Mothers with pelvic organ prolapse (POP) encounter serious problems that affect
mother‘s quality of life and lead morbidity and mortality. POP exhibit multiple symptoms that can
severely affect a woman‘s quality of life by limiting physical, social, psychological and sexual
function. Care for patient with pelvic organ prolapse focuses on clinical outcomes and determine
the status of patient quality of life and associated factors were neglected; scientific studies focusing
on this area is lacking in the study locality, thus, this study is designed to determine the
psychosocial and mental health impact of pelvic organ prolapsed among patient attending
treatment at Jimma Medical Center.
Methods: A hospital based prospective cohort study will be employed. Data will be collected by
interviewer administered pre-tested semi structured questionnaire from all patients attending
follow up service of Jimma Medical Center. Patient quality of life will be assessed using Pelvic
Organ Prolapse Quality of Life (P-QOL) tool. Level of social support will be assessed by using
Oslo Social Support Scale (OSSS-3) and patient perceived stigma will be measured by using
stigma scale. In addition treatment outcomes like degree of prolapse, emotional distress, post
operation complication will be assessed. The data will be collected in 4 phases. Thus, at admission
(baseline data), at discharge (immediate treatment outcome), at 3 and 6 month post-operative
assessment will be done. Data entry will be done using Epi data version 3.1 and statistical analysis
will be done by using SPSS 20 statistical software
