Evaluating Therapeutic Change in Symptom Severity at the Level of the Individual Woman Experiencing Severe PMS

Taylor, Diana

doi:10.1111/j.1547-5069.1994.tb00290.x

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“…Despite this overall scientific community emphasis, nurse scientists have long been engaged in the study of women across a variety of developmental stages including menarche and menopause. Nurse researchers Voda (1994), Woods and others (2002), Shaver and others (2002), Reame (2001), Lee and others (2001), Taylor (1994), and Wilbur and others (2001) were well aware of the need to consider the woman as a whole in terms of better describing, understanding, and designing interventions. When the Office of Research on Women's Health in 1992 advocated that "the distinction between behavior and biology is artificial.…”

Section: Gendermentioning

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State of Nursing Science: On the Edge

Heitkemper¹,

Bond²

2003

Biological Research For Nursing

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Nurse scientists have had great and important successes contributing to science and to patient care. To review the state of nursing science is an enormous and complex challenge, and yet the pace of discovery constantly quickens. The purpose of this article, which was read at the 2002 State of the Science Congress, was to use the human response model to describe the domains of nursing science and note exemplary, innovative developments in the context of the model's "person" and "environmental" domains. Advances are noted in genetics, aging, development, and gender studies; also noted is work in infection care, disaster care, and identification of health disparities. Asked to predict the future, we chose instead to describe societal challenges and speculate how nursing leaders can contribute importantly by applying nursing's unique perspective. Benchmarks of our success will include reversal of the nursing shortage, patients living to their highest potential, and penetration of evidence based care into clinical practice and health policy. Furthermore, the media and the public will view nurse scientists as key informants related to clinical care. Nurse scientists will be elected to lead major interdisciplinary organizations, our training programs will prepare new scientists with the knowledge and skills to enter a competitive and ever-evolving field, our schools will have adequate infrastructure to support the advancement using cutting-edge technology, centers of excellence will provide research consultation and collaboration beyond university boundaries, and nurse scientists will assume a more visible role in translational research.

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State of Nursing Science: On the Edge

Heitkemper¹,

Bond²

2003

Biological Research For Nursing

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“…magnesium, APA 1987APA , 1994. Both refer to women with premenstrual complaints who suffer primarily from serious affective symptoms which may be considered as the most severe forms of PMS (Taylor 1994). This subtype of severe form PMS i.e.…”

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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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“…Some investigators have disqualified all women with other psychiatric disorders from receiving a diagnosis of PMDD. Other investigators (e.g., Mitchell, Woods, & Lentz, 1994; Taylor, 1994) have differentiated, for example, “pure” PMS from premenstrual magnification by examining the mean severity of all symptoms during the postmenstrual phase. According to this method, PMS is characterized by low postmenses symptom severity; whereas premenstrual magnification is characterized by medium to high postmenses symptom severity, indicating a disturbance all month long that becomes worse premenstrually.…”

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Differentiating premenstrual dysphoric disorder from premenstrual exacerbations of other disorders: A methods dilemma.

Hartlage

Gehlert

2001

Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice

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Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) and premenstrual exacerbations of other disorders are difficult to distinguish. Previous methods, such as excluding women with other disorders from a PMDD diagnosis, do not enable a dual diagnosis. Our objective is to advance conceptual and clinical thinking and stimulate dialogue regarding this methods dilemma. The discussion sheds light on comorbidity in general, regardless of the disorders. Considering fundamental criteria for severe premenstrual disorders helps distinguish the phenomena of interest. A proposed method allows identification of PMDD co‐occurring with other disorders. PMDD symptoms can be differentiated by their nature and timing (e.g., cyclic depressed mood could be a PMDD symptom, but cyclic binge eating or depressed mood all month long could not be). Impairment must increase premenstrually for a PMDD diagnosis. The proposed method is an advance, but specified unanswered questions remain.

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Evaluating Therapeutic Change in Symptom Severity at the Level of the Individual Woman Experiencing Severe PMS

Cited by 6 publications

References 17 publications

State of Nursing Science: On the Edge

State of Nursing Science: On the Edge

A Controlled Trial of Chinese Herbal Medicine for Premenstrual Syndrome

Differentiating premenstrual dysphoric disorder from premenstrual exacerbations of other disorders: A methods dilemma.

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