Protocol on Development of Comprehensive Menstrual Symptoms Scale for Grading the Menstrual Problems Among Adolescent Girls

Background: Menstruation and related problems are difficult issues for adolescent girls and are a common reason for consulting healthcare providers. The objective of the study was to study the age of menarche, menstrual pattern, menstrual related health problems and health seeking behaviour for it.Methods: A cross sectional study was carried out in urban as well as rural schools of Lucknow district from August 2014 to September 2015. Multistage random sampling was used to select the requisite number of girls. A total of 600 girls of age group 10-19 years were interviewed and analysed using appropriate statistical methodsResults: The mean age of menarche of the total population was 13.2±1 years. During menstruation, urban girls had significantly excessive passage of clots (26.5%) and faced more discomfort in their routine activities (78.8%) when compared to their rural counterpart (25.2% and 73.4% respectively), whereas the relation was inverse with regard to school absenteeism that was significantly higher in rural girls (44.0%) than urban girls (32.3%). The usual age of menarche as well as the pattern of pre-menstrual symptoms varied significantly between the girls of rural and urban areas.Conclusions: With few exceptions, menstrual health related problems have an unequal distribution in girls of rural and urban origin. Hence effective management of menstrual problems will lose its chase unless health education targeting all the three groups viz.; adolescent girls, concerned parents and teachers have to be uniformly strengthened.

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Menstrual Symptoms in Adolescent Girls: Association with Smoking, Depressive Symptoms, and Anxiety

Journal of Adolescent Health ◽

10.1016/j.jadohealth.2008.07.018 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 44 (3) ◽

pp. 237-243 ◽

Cited By ~ 61

Author(s):

Lorah D. Dorn ◽

Sonya Negriff ◽

Bin Huang ◽

Stephanie Pabst ◽

Jennifer Hillman ◽

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Keyword(s):

Depressive Symptoms ◽

Adolescent Girls ◽

Menstrual Symptoms

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Characterizing the Longitudinal Relations Between Depressive and Menstrual Symptoms in Adolescent Girls

Psychosomatic Medicine ◽

10.1097/psy.0000000000000099 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 76 (7) ◽

pp. 547-554 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Sarah J. Beal ◽

Lorah D. Dorn ◽

Heidi J. Sucharew ◽

Lisa Sontag-Padilla ◽

Stephanie Pabst ◽

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Keyword(s):

Adolescent Girls ◽

Menstrual Symptoms

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Prevalence and Predictors of Dysmenorrhea, its Effects and Coping Mechanism among Adolescent

10.53350/pjmhs211582472 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 15 (8) ◽

pp. 2472-2476

Author(s):

Nadia Khan Jawad ◽

Zulfiqar Ali ◽

Shumaila Khawaja Khail ◽

Aasia Fozia ◽

Nadia Pervaiz ◽

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Keyword(s):

Adolescent Girls ◽

Management Practices ◽

Statistical Significance ◽

Treatment Options ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Common Symptom ◽

Management Options ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Menstrual Symptoms ◽

Significant Difference

Background and Aim: Dysmenorrhea is one of the most common gynecological disorders in the world. The current study aims to know the prevalence of dysmenorrhea and its management practices among adolescent girls. The study also aim to assess predictors of dysmenorrhea treatment options. Materials and Methods: This institutional-based cross-sectional study was carried out at Obstetrics & Gynaecology department of Mardan Women Hospital, Sheikh Maltoon Town Mardan and Jinnah International Hospital, Abbottabad from June 2020 to November 2020. Pretested self-administrated and a semi-structured questionnaire was used for data collection from volunteer adolescent girls to take part in this study. The outcome and exposure variables association was evaluated through a multi regression model and chi-square test. Dysmenorrhea risk was reported by taking the odds ratio at a confidence interval of 95%. SPSS version 20 was used for data analysis and statistical significance was considered at p<0.05. Results: Of the total 680 questionnaires, 601 (88.4%) were completed. The response rate and dysmenorrhea prevalence were 88.4% and 53.3% respectively. The mean age of the adolescents was 16.3 ± 1.92. While mean age for Menarche was 12.41 ± 1.62. A significant difference (t= 5.78, p< 0.001) between dysmenorrhea and non-dysmenorrhea age girls was (16.81 ±1.98) and (12.56 ± 1.65) respectively. The common symptom of waist pain among participants was (345, 57.4%). The prevalence of participants taking Over-the-counter (OTC) drugs for menstrual symptoms was 191 (31.8%). Dysmenorrhea’s severity and age were the two significant predictors for the prospect of taking a dysmenorrhea pharmacological agent. Conclusion: Our study concluded that a higher prevalence of dysmenorrhea was observed among adolescents compared to Menarche which adversely affects the routine major activities. A significant association between self-reported dysmenorrhea and the abnormal menstrual cycle was found. Adolescents must be educated early on about the safety and efficacy of various dysmenorrhea management options. Keywords: Dysmenorrhea, Adolescence, Menarche

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Prevelance of symptoms during menstruation and its management among adolescent girls

International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health ◽

10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20213532 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (9) ◽

pp. 4325

Author(s):

Angitha Saji ◽

Krupa Ann Sunil ◽

Agatha Mary John ◽

Abhilash Kumar B. ◽

Abel Abraham Thomas

Keyword(s):

Adolescent Girls ◽

Prospective Observational Study ◽

Psychological Symptoms ◽

Age Group ◽

Natural Phenomena ◽

Nonpharmacological Treatment ◽

Menstrual Symptoms ◽

Physiological Symptoms ◽

Spontaneous Onset ◽

Structured Questionnaire

Background: Menstruation is a natural phenomena of the female reproductive cycle in which discharge of blood from the uterus exits through the vagina every month, it is the spontaneous onset of puberty. 75% of girls confront some problems associated with menstruation including delayed, irregular, painful and heavy menstrual bleeding. Menstruation can be accompanied with premenstrual and postmenstrual symptoms which include both physiological symptoms and psychological symptoms. It is important to treat both physiological and psychological symptoms with pharmacological and nonpharmacological treatment approaches.Methods: The study was a prospective observational study done with a sample size of 650 subjects of 9 to 18 age group in whom menstruation already occurred were recruited from five different schools in regions of Pathanamthitta and Alappuzha. The study was conducted in 3 phases, where initially a predesigned well-structured questionnaire was provided to assess the attitude, awareness and practices.Results: Subjects experienced some or other type of symptoms and had better knowledge regarding menstrual symptoms and its importance of management when compared to subjects from other regions of India which was imparted from a developed and supporting society but still, they lacked some adequate and updated information on symptoms and management of symptoms during menstruation.Conclusions: So, this study laid the groundwork for discussion on menstrual symptoms, various approaches of treatment to the adolescent girls, providing them the information they lacked and better guidance.

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