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A Cross Sectional Survey On Menstrual Disorders Among Female College Students
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MERIN SHAJI, MERIN K.A, RAMALINGAM KAMAESWARAN
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Background:Disorders that are usually linked to menstruation affect women from all parts of the world and it’s increasingly becoming one of the major reasons for gynaecological visits. There are many risk factors of abnormal menstrual patterns including age, age of menarche, body mass index, ethnicity, stress etc. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of menstrual disorders and its associated risk factors among female college students.
Methods:This is a cross-sectional descriptive study carried out on 1063 female college students in and around Kumarapalayam, Tamil Nadu, India. Data were collected using a self-administered structured questionnaire and entered to Microsoft excel version 10.0 and analyzed by using GraphPad Prism version 8.0. Correlation between risk factors and various menstrual disorders was carried out by Spearman correlation coefficient with p-value <0.05.
Results:Mean age and standard deviation of study participants was 19.19± 1.55 years. The increase in age is positively correlated and significantly associated with pre-menstrual syndrome (p=0.0048). The significant association of body mass index with dysmenorrhea (p= 0.0007) and oligomenorrhea (p=<0.0001) were identified. Stress is significantly associated with premenstrual syndrome (p=<0.0001) as well as dysmenorrhea (p= 0.0003).
Conclusions:The premenstrual syndrome was highly prevalent menstrual disorder among female college students. We assessed the various factors influencing the occurrence of menstrual disorders with significant association. We recommend similar studies to strategize appropriate interventions for eradicating the effect of these potential factors to menstrual disorders and modifiable risk factors.
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Menstruation, Menstrual disorders, Risk factors.
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2023.15.01.008
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