Endometriosis : improvement of quality of life from a nursing perspective

The purpose of this bachelor thesis was to explore about different effects of endometriosis on the quality of the life of the patient and to explore more about the role of the nursing to improve the quality of life in the affected patients of endometriosis. \n \nThe aim of the thesis was to improve the knowledge among the nurses about endometriosis so that they could play a more constructive role in managing and treating this disease. \n \nThe thesis was written by using the literature review methodology. The authors of the thesis did their research by using the search engines, provided by the Turku University of applied sciences websites Finna, Cinahl Complete (EBSCO host), Google Scholar, PubMed and E-Library. For importing the different references, the authors used RefWorks. The authors reviewed 34 articles and used the content data analysis, to analyze the articles. \n \nThe results show, there is no doubt that endometriosis causes problems to the quality of life of the patients, their partners and with the society. But on the other hand, if we could equip the nurses with the enhanced and further updated knowledge of the disease, the life can be lived with more ease even with endometriosis and the treatment would be more successful.