Study design, materials and methods
We sent designed a web-based questionnaire to 780 Korean Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology members. The items evaluated in the questionnaire were basal characteristics and currently surgical decision-making processes for correction of apical prolapse correction. Differences between thirty urogynecologists and ninety-six non-urogynecologists, we calledwhom we will now address as obstetrics and gynecologists, were analyzed by using the two-sample t-test and chi-square test.
Interpretation of results
65.1% of the surveyed indicated performing surgical correction for vaginal vault prolapse. 90 % of the Korean urogynecologists was respond to do surgeryresponded that they normally perform the given operation. However, only 68.8% of obstetrics and gynecologists responded analogously. Surgical procedure preference differed as well: the urogynecologic department preferred sacrocolpopexy with mesh (40.8%) while the obstetrics and gynecologic department preferred sacrospinous ligament fixation (31.8%).In obstetrics and gynecologic department, most surgeons preferred to sacrospinous ligament fixation (31.8%).