An assessment of psychological state associated with the menstrual cycle in users of oral contraception

Marriott, Alison; Faragher, E. B.

doi:10.1016/0022-3999(86)90064-4

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“…It is therefore to be expected that a certain percentage of participants will be using oral contraceptives (OCs) and they are therefore included in our sample. Studies have found high proportions of women with PMS to report negative mood changes while using OCs (7,24), low frequency of mood changes in women using OCs (25,26) and no difference between OC users and non users (8,27).…”

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Prevalence of menstrual cycle symptom cyclicity and premenstrual dysphoric disorder in a random sample of women using and not using oral contraceptives

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Bäckström

2000

Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand

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Prevalence of menstrual cycle symptom cyclicity and premenstrual dysphoric disorder in a random sample of women using and not using oral contraceptives

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Bäckström

2000

Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand

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“…13,30 Other research has shown that for a large sample of women, a greater number of symptoms were reported during both the late luteal and menstrual phases, according to DSM-IV definitions of PMDD 33 and the Moos Menstrual Distress Questionnaire. 31 This finding suggests that the symptoms normally considered to be associated with the late luteal phase persist through menstruation. Our finding of increased emotional suffering by normally menstruating women during the menstrual phase compared to the follicular and ovulatory phases is consistent with the idea that symptoms normally associated with the premenstrual period persist during menstruation.…”

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Sex Differences and Hormonal Influences on Response to Mechanical Pressure Pain in Humans

Kowalczyk

Sullivan

Evans

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The Journal of Pain

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Previous studies have demonstrated that sex differences in pain responsivity can be detected using various models of experimentally induced pain. The present study employed the mechanical pressure test in order to examine potential differences in pain report among men, normally menstruating women (NMW), and women taking monophasic oral contraceptives (OCW). Testing occurred during 5 phases of the menstrual cycle (menstrual, follicular, ovulatory, luteal, and late luteal) and all participants completed 10 sessions (2 sessions per phase). Menstrual-cycle phase was estimated for OCW based on their first day of menses. Men were tested at time points that roughly corresponded to the intervals during which the different phases occurred in NMW. During the mechanical pressure test, 4 different weights were placed on the fingers, one at a time, and ratings of pain were recorded for 30 seconds. The statistical decision-making model and a forced-choice procedure were used to analyze the response data. Two variables, based on signal detection theory, were thus generated: P(A), a measure of sensory pain, and B, a measure of response bias. P(A) is believed to be a measure of pain sensitivity while B measures stoicism. NMW tended to report lower P(A) values, indicating reduced ability to discriminate among different stimulus intensities, during the menstrual and late luteal phases compared to the luteal phase. OCW reported lower B values, indicating less stoicism, during the menstrual compared to the follicular and ovulatory phases. Men tended to have significantly lower B values than OCW, but not NMW. These results demonstrate subtle menstrual-cycle effects in NMW and OCW. Sex differences were few, with more group differences and trends emerging between OCW and men, as opposed to men and NMW. Perspective: The lack of consistent differences between men and NMW underscores the subtle impact of sex and hormonal changes in pain report. In addition, the data obtained in NMW support the notion that changes in hormone levels during the menstrual cycle can lead to changes in pain responsivity as NMW had trends for better discrimination in menstrual phases when estradiol levels were highest.

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“…Nevertheless, the Control scale and selfratings of depression showed no consistent cyclical variation. A large number of subsequent investigations have found significant cyclical variations on at least some of the appropriate scales of the concurrent MDQ (Asso, 1986;Goudsmit, 1988;Haskett, Steiner, Osmun, & Carroll, 1980;Kirstein, Rosenberg, & Smith, 1980-81;Marriott & Faragher, 1986;Rogers & Harding, 1981;Rouse, 1978;Sampson, 1979Sampson, , 1981Sampson & Jenner, 1977;Silbergeld, Brast, & Noble, 1971;Voda, 1980) or on a variety of other concurrent instruments (Backstrom, Sanders, Leask, Davidson, Warner, & Bancroft, 1983;Campos & Thurow, 1978;Endicott et al, 1986;Golub, 1976;Goudsmit, 1988;Haskett & Abplanalp, 1983;Kirstein et al, 1980-81;O'Brien, Craven, Selby, & Symonds, 1979;Rossi & Rossi, 1977;Rubinow, Roy-Byrne, Hoban, Gold, & Post, 1984;Silbergeld et al, 1971;cf. Banks & Beresford, 1979;Webster, 1980;Zimmerman & Parlee, 1973), even when the purpose of the study was concealed (Englander-Golden et al, 1978;Paige, 1971;Rogers & Harding, 1981;Slade, 1984;Wilcoxon, Schrader, & Sherif, 1976).…”

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Questionnaire Studies of Paramenstrual Symptoms

Richardson

1990

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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A number of formal questionnaires have been devised to study paramenstrual symptomatology. It has been suggested that women's responses to these questionnaires are vulnerable to forgetting and contaminated by culturally induced expectations. Nevertheless, concurrent reports of experienced symptoms may correlate highly with retrospective judgments, even when the relevance of the menstrual cycle is disguised. They also differentiate between women with and without a self‐reported history of premenstrual symptoms, although concurrent reports across several menstrual cycles are impractical to collect and may be inconsistent between successive cycles. A number of methodological criticisms have been directed toward the most commonly used device, the Menstrual Distress Questionnaire. In principle, however, retrospective questions offer a reliable and accurate indication of women's experience during the normal menstrual cycle.

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An assessment of psychological state associated with the menstrual cycle in users of oral contraception

Cited by 29 publications

References 13 publications

Prevalence of menstrual cycle symptom cyclicity and premenstrual dysphoric disorder in a random sample of women using and not using oral contraceptives

Prevalence of menstrual cycle symptom cyclicity and premenstrual dysphoric disorder in a random sample of women using and not using oral contraceptives

Sex Differences and Hormonal Influences on Response to Mechanical Pressure Pain in Humans

Questionnaire Studies of Paramenstrual Symptoms

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