TY - JOUR
T1 - Severe perimenstrual symptoms
T2 - Prevalence and effects on absenteeism and health care seeking in a non-clinical sample
AU - Busch, Cathrine M.
AU - Costa, Paul T.
AU - Whitehead, William E.
AU - Heller, Barbara R.
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ABSTRACT. Three hundred eight nursing students were classified into three perimenstrual severity groups based on their responses to the Moos Menstrual Distress Questionnaire, disregarding the number of symptoms reported. The prevalence of severe perimenstrual symptoms was 44% for strong symptoms and 18% for acute symptoms. Severity was significantly related to perimenstrual absence and to health care seeking for menstrual disorders, dysmenorrhea, and for gynecological disorders unrelated to menstruation. Severity was not significantly related to non-gynecological absence or health care seeking for non-gynecological disorders. Severe menstrual Catherine M. Busch is Stall Fellow, Personality, Stress and ~o~ik>ection and Paul T. Costa Jr. is Chief of the Section on Personality, Stress, and Coping, LPC, National Institute on Aging, Gerontology Research Center, Francis Scott Key Medical Center, Baltimore, MD 21224. William E. Whitehead is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Barbara R. Heller is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Education, Administration & Health Policy at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. T h ~ ss tudy was supported by Research Career Development Award MH00133 from the National Institute of Mental Health, by the University of Maryland School of Nursing, and by the Gerontology Research Center of the National Institute on Aging. The authors thank Alan Zonderman, PhD, Rebecca Busch, MD, and an anonymous reviewcr for their many helpful comments.
PY - 1988/11/1
Y1 - 1988/11/1
N2 - Three hundred eight nursing students were classified into three perimenstrual severity groups based on their responses to the Moos Menstrual Distress Questionnaire, disregarding the number of symptoms reported. The prevalence of severe perimenstrual symptoms was 44% for strong symptoms and 18% for acute symptoms. Severity was significantly related to perimenstrual absence and to health care seeking for menstrual disorders, dysmenorrhea, and for gynecological disorders unrelated to menstruation. Severity was not significantly related to non-gynecological absence or health care seeking for non-gynecological disorders. Severe menstrual symptoms, particularly dysmenorrhea, had more of an effect on absenteeism and health care seeking than severe premenstrual symptoms.
AB - Three hundred eight nursing students were classified into three perimenstrual severity groups based on their responses to the Moos Menstrual Distress Questionnaire, disregarding the number of symptoms reported. The prevalence of severe perimenstrual symptoms was 44% for strong symptoms and 18% for acute symptoms. Severity was significantly related to perimenstrual absence and to health care seeking for menstrual disorders, dysmenorrhea, and for gynecological disorders unrelated to menstruation. Severity was not significantly related to non-gynecological absence or health care seeking for non-gynecological disorders. Severe menstrual symptoms, particularly dysmenorrhea, had more of an effect on absenteeism and health care seeking than severe premenstrual symptoms.
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U2 - 10.1300/J013v14n01_05
DO - 10.1300/J013v14n01_05
M3 - Article
C2 - 3232392
AN - SCOPUS:0024230337
SN - 0363-0242
VL - 14
SP - 59
EP - 74
JO - Women and Health
JF - Women and Health
IS - 1
ER -