Assessing the assessment measures for menstrual cycle symptoms

Haywood, Annette; Slade, Pauline; King, Harold

doi:10.1016/s0022-3999(02)00297-0

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“…Prospective diaries, while less reliant on memory, are demanding for participants and lead to biased samples thorough nonadherence. 28 Our finding may be explained by the possibility that women who had high intakes of fat or low intakes of cereals/grains/potatoes were more concerned about or exaggerated the changes in symptoms related to DIET AND MENSTRUAL PAIN 597 the menstrual cycle. It is also possible that women who had greater changes in menstrual symptoms reported higher than actual fat intake and lower than actual cereals/grains/ starches intake.…”

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Soy, fat and other dietary factors in relation to premenstrual symptoms in Japanese women

Nagata¹,

Hirokawa

Shimizu

et al. 2004

BJOG

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Objective To evaluate the relations of intakes of soy, fat and other dietary components to premenstrual symptoms. Design Cross sectional study.Setting Three colleges and two nursing schools.Population One hundred and eighty-nine Japanese women aged 19 to 34 years.Methods Intakes of nutrients and foods, including soy products and isoflavones, were estimated by a semiquantitative food frequency questionnaire. Change in menstrual cycle symptoms were assessed by the Moos Menstrual Distress Questionnaire (MDQ). Main outcome measures Spearman rank correlation of soy and other dietary factors with changes in MDQ scores between the follicular and the premenstrual phases after controlling for age, marital status, exercise, smoking status, age at menarche and number of days of bleeding. Results Neither soy product nor isoflavone intake was significantly associated with change in MDQ score in the premenstrual phase. Intakes of total, saturated and monounsaturated fats were significantly correlated with change in scores for total MDQ and subscale 'pain' in the premenstrual phase after controlling for the covariates. Intake of cereals/potatoes/starches was significantly inversely correlated with a change in total MDQ score in the premenstrual phase. Conclusions High intake of fats and low intake of foods with high concentration of carbohydrate may be associated with premenstrual symptoms.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 69%

Soy, fat and other dietary factors in relation to premenstrual symptoms in Japanese women

Nagata¹,

Hirokawa

Shimizu

et al. 2004

BJOG

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“…La validez del reporte hecho por las propias mujeres sobre eventos de tipo reproductivo, incluida la regularidad menstrual, ha dado buenos resultados (22). Una evaluación de la confiabilidad de la evaluación retrospectiva de la longitud del ciclo menstrual, demostró que las preguntas de selección múltiple entre diferentes categorías tuvo una reproducibilidad moderada comparada con la de los diarios prospectivos, y, por lo tanto, la evaluación basada en variables continuas es preferible para dar cuenta de la duración del intervalo menstrual (23).…”

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Irregularidad menstrual y exposición a mercurio en la minería artesanal del oro en Colombia

Rodríguez-Villamizar¹,

Jaimes²,

Manquián-Tejos³

et al. 2015

biomedica

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“…The current diagnostic standard requires confirmation of subjective symptom reports by prospective daily diaries. However, daily rating may result in biased samples through nonadherence and is rather demanding for participants leading to high drop-out rates in studies (Haywood et al 2002). Richter and colleagues (1984) reported that most of their subjects found the daily record keeping unacceptable and withdrew from the trial; Gise and colleagues (1990) reported that 63% of their participants failed to comply with a two month daily prospective record keeping.…”

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“…Prospective record keeping has been claimed to be rather time-consuming for participants (van der Ploeg & Lodder 1993) that leads to high drop-out rates in studies (Haywood et al 2002). Alternatively, utilising recall of symptoms and their severity in retrospective reports has been criticized by researchers as less accurate, as it may be influenced by subject recall bias (Woods et al 1982a).…”

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A Controlled Trial of Chinese Herbal Medicine for Premenstrual Syndrome

Chou¹,

Morse²,

Xu³

et al. 2009

Deutsche Zeitschrift für Akupunktur

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Premenstrual syndrome is a common disorder troubling many women during their reproductive years. The Chinese have been using herbal medicines to treat menstrual cycle related symptoms for centuries. Traditional Chinese medicine provides the aetiology and pathogenesis of the symptoms of this disorder by applying Pattern Identification to diagnose the signs and symptoms of individual patients and to design individualised treatments which seek to address the entire pattern/s of disharmony. It follows that PMS, which has many symptoms and an idiosyncratic nature, is precisely an area for which Chinese medicine is most suitable. The aim of this study is to scientifically evaluate the effectiveness of Chinese herbal medicine on Australian women for the treatment of PMS within the theoretical frame-work of TCM. A double-blind randomized placebo-controlled crossover clinical trial was conducted by a qualified Chinese herbal practitioner and pharmacist. Following two months confirmatory assessment, sixty-one subjects were assigned randomly into two groups within different TCM patterns of Liver Qi Stagnation, Liver and Kidney Yin Deficiency, Liver and Spleen Disharmony and Heart and Spleen Deficiency. Herbal medicine (n=31) and placebo (n=30) were provided sequentially for a period of three months. There were significant differences (p < .01) in scores after three months of treatment between Chinese herbal medicine and placebo in premenstrual physical and psychological symptoms, depression, anxiety and anger, but with no difference in perceived stress (p > .05). There were highly significant reductions (p< .001) in all assessments in both groups except that a significant result (p < .05) was recorded on perceived

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Assessing the assessment measures for menstrual cycle symptoms

Cited by 58 publications

References 22 publications

Soy, fat and other dietary factors in relation to premenstrual symptoms in Japanese women

Soy, fat and other dietary factors in relation to premenstrual symptoms in Japanese women

Irregularidad menstrual y exposición a mercurio en la minería artesanal del oro en Colombia

A Controlled Trial of Chinese Herbal Medicine for Premenstrual Syndrome

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