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Table 2 clinical Signs and symptoms of women with uterine fibroids in Haiti accessing care at the outpatient department at Mirebalais University Hospital (n = 116)

From: Assessing burden, risk factors, and perceived impact of uterine fibroids on women’s lives in rural Haiti: implications for advancing a health equity agenda, a mixed methods study

Characteristics

n (%) or mean

Stress (n = 114)

92 (79.3)

Dysmenorrhea (115)

73 (62.9)

Acute pelvic pain (112)

72 (62.1)

Pelvic mass (n = 113)

56 (48.3)

Polymenorrhagia

50 (43.1)

Metrorrhagia (115)

49 (42.2)

Menorrhagia (n = 114)

49 (40.5)

Mictional difficulty

49 (40.5)

Chronic pelvic pain (n = 115)

33 (28.5)

Pelvic pressure (n = 114)

33 (28.5)

ZLDSI score (mean)

7.65 (0–24)

Low depression (ZL score 13–17 and ≥ 18 - ≤ 27)

22 (11.4)

Abdominal pelvic mass (n = 113)

9 (7.8)

Moderate depression (≥18 - ≤ 27)

8 (4.2)