Volume : IX, Issue : VIII, August - 2019

MENSTRUAL HYGIENIC PRACTICES AND PREVALENCE OF PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME IN MEDICAL STUDENTS

Dr S Srikanth, Dr. Sadguru Nandini

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Learning about menstrual hygiene forms a vital aspect of health education among menstruating women to avoid future long–term ill effects of poor menstrual hygiene practices leading to premature births, stillbirths, miscarriages, infertility problems, toxic shock syndrome and carcinoma cervix. Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) can be oadly defined as any constellation of psychological and physical symptoms that recur regularly in the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle, which remit for at least 1 week in the follicular phase and cause distress and functional impairment. The objective of the present study was to assess the menstrual hygienic practices and prevalence of PMS in female medical under graduate students. Premenstrual symptoms screening tool [PSST] was used for identifying the prevalence of PMS. In our study 30% of the study participants met the criteria for moderate to severe PMS and 5% of the participants met the criteria for Pre Menstrual Dysphoric Disorder. (PMDD)

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MENSTRUAL HYGIENIC PRACTICES AND PREVALENCE OF PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME IN MEDICAL STUDENTS, Dr S Srikanth, Dr. Sadguru Nandini INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-9 | Issue-8 | August-2019

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