TY - JOUR T1 - Prevalence and severity of dysmenorrhea: a problem related to menstruation, among first and second year female medical students. AU - Singh,Amita, AU - Kiran,Dukhu, AU - Singh,Harminder, AU - Nel,Bithika, AU - Singh,Prabhakar, AU - Tiwari,Pavan, PY - 2009/7/10/entrez PY - 2009/7/10/pubmed PY - 2009/7/22/medline SP - 389 EP - 97 JF - Indian journal of physiology and pharmacology JO - Indian J Physiol Pharmacol VL - 52 IS - 4 N2 - Dysmenorrhea is the most common of gynecologic complaints. It affects half of all female adolescents today and represents the leading cause of periodic college/school absenteeism among that population. To evaluate the menstrual problem specially dysmenorrhea and its severity in female medical students and its effect on their regular activities. This is a cross-sectional descriptive study; conducted on 107 female medical students, all participants were given a questionnaire to complete; questions were related to menstruation elucidating variations in menstrual patterns, history of dysmenorrhea and its severity, pre-menstrual symptom and absenteeism from college and/or class; to detect the severity of dysmenorrhea we used the verbal multi-dimensional scoring system, participants were given 20 minutes to complete the questionnaire. The mean age of subjects at menarche was 12.5 (+/-1.52) years, with a range of 10-15 years. The prevalence of dysmenorrhea was 73.83%; approximately 4.67% of dysmenorrhic subjects had severe dysmenorrhea. The average duration between two periods and the duration of menstrual flow were 28.34 (+/-7.54) days and 4.5 (+/-2.45) days respectively. Prevalence of other menstrual disorders like irregularity, prolonged menstrual bleeding, heavy menstrual bleeding and PCOD were 7.47%, 10.28%, 23.36% and 3.73% respectively. Among female medical students who reported dysmenorrhea; 31.67% and 8.68% were frequently missing college & classes respectively. Premenstrual symptom was the second most (60.50%) prevalent disorder and 67.08% reported social withdrawal. Dysmenorrhea and PMS is highly prevalent among female medical students, it is related to college/class absenteeism, limitations on social, academic, sports and daily activities. Maximum participants do not seek medical advice and self treat themselves with prostaglandin inhibitors; like Ibuprofen. SN - 0019-5499 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/19585756/Prevalence_and_severity_of_dysmenorrhea:_a_problem_related_to_menstruation_among_first_and_second_year_female_medical_students_ L2 - https://medlineplus.gov/periodpain.html DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -