Magnitude of health problems among late adolescents: a cross sectional study

Waghachavare, Vivek; Chavan, Manohar Shankarrao; Gore, Alka Dilip; Kadam, Jitesh Hanmantrao; Chavan, Vishwajeet Manohar; Dhumale, Girish

doi:10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20160992

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“…11 A study done in Sangli district, Maharashtra by Waghachavare et al observed that menstrual problems were reported by 58.4% of female students of degree colleges, out of which dysmenorrhea was the commonest (47%). 16 Similar findings were noted in our study i.e., 52.8% of the women complained of dysmenorrhoea.…”

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A cross-sectional study on obesity and menstrual abnormalities among women of reproductive age in urban field practice area of Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangalore

Srikanth

Kumari

Rajanna

2019

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Obesity is on the rise among Indian women; increasing from 12.6% (NFHS-3) to 20.7% (NFHS-4). This leads to dysregulation of several groups of hormones and has deleterious effect on the reproductive system. Extra adipocytes are sources of extra estrogen that can cause menstrual disorders such as oligomenorrhoea, polymenorrhoea, menorrhagia and metrorrhagia. Counselling women about weight reduction will help in improving their reproductive health and quality of life. Thus, the present study was done to assess obesity among women and to describe the menstrual abnormalities among them; simultaneously, the perception of obesity among these women was also assessed.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted by doing house to house survey among 250 women of reproductive age residing in the urban field practice area of KIMS, Bangalore for a period of 3 months from June to August 2018. Details about socio-demographic factors, presence of any menstrual abnormalities and perception of obesity were collected using questionnaire by house to house survey. Anthropometric measurements were done and BMI was calculated. Data was entered in MS excel and analysed using appropriate statistical tests.Results: The study included 250 subjects; among whom 59.2% were obese. The common menstrual problems reported were dysmenorrhea (52.8%), oligomenorrhea (20.4%), hypomenorrhea (14.1%), menorrhagia (13.6%) and polymenorrhea (1.6%). Menstrual problems affected daily activities in 50.7% subjects. The difference between perception of their body image and their actual weight was found to be statistically significant.Conclusions: Obesity is an important health issue among women and most of them had menstrual abnormalities.

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A cross-sectional study on obesity and menstrual abnormalities among women of reproductive age in urban field practice area of Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangalore

Srikanth

Kumari

Rajanna

2019

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“…Similar findings were seen in a study done by Waghachavare et al on students of Sangli, Maharashtra in which menstrual problems were reported by (58.4%) female students among which Dysmenorrhea (47%) was the commonest. 17 Mathiyalagen et al in a study conducted in adolescent school girls of Puducherry, found the prevalence of dysmenorrhea (82.2%) quite higher than our study. 18 Similarly Agarwal et al in a study in adolescent girls of Gwalior found that majority of the adolescent girls under study had experienced dysmenorrhea, (71.96%).…”

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“…Other health issue are skin diseases, tonsillitis, respiratory diseases and ear diseases. [6][7][8] Adolescent girls are the mothers of tomorrow, and no edifice can be built on a foundation that is weak, and if we could not give a safe and secure today to the mother of tomorrow, it will be futile to expect the future generation to be mentally and physically healthy. 9 Most of the studies on morbidity pattern of school going adolescent girls available have been conducted in western countries.…”

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Morbidity pattern in the school going adolescent girls of rural and urban Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh

Dabas

Prakash

Parveen

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Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Adolescence is an intermediary phase from childhood to adulthood and is a very delicate phase of life. WHO has defined Adolescence as the period between 10-19 years of life. Among adolescents, girls constitute a more vulnerable group, particularly in developing countries, where they are traditionally married at an early age and are exposed to greater risk of reproductive morbidity and mortality. Nutritional deficiency disorders (stunting, wasting), menstrual disorders, mental health problems etc. appear as serious problem during this stage. The study was done with objective to assess the morbidity pattern in school going adolescent girls in Urban and Rural Prayagraj.Methods: A school based cross-sectional study was carried out in Prayagraj district. Study participants were 800 adolescent girls, 400 urban and 400 rural of age groups 10–19 years studying in class 6th to 12th. The data was collected by using predesigned, pretested, semi structured questionnaire and analyzed by using SPSS 21.0 version.Results: It was observed that most prevalent morbidity in rural and urban school going adolescent girls were dysmenorrhoea 381 (47.6%), pallor 296 (37%), psychological problems 325 (40.6%) and ocular diseases 191 (23.8%). Other morbidities were hypertension, dental problems, overweight/obesity, skin diseases, ear diseases, respiratory diseases, gastrointestinal diseases and injury.Conclusions: Out of 800 study participants, 275 adolescent girls were having morbidity. Significant difference in proportion of morbidities was found among rural and urban adolescent girls with ear diseases, eye diseases, pallor, dysmenorrhoea, overweight/obesity and hypertension.

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Parent-peer attachment, negative automatic thoughts and psychological problems among Pakistani adolescents: A moderated mediation model

Irfan

Zulkefly

2021

Curr Psychol

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Magnitude of health problems among late adolescents: a cross sectional study

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A cross-sectional study on obesity and menstrual abnormalities among women of reproductive age in urban field practice area of Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangalore

A cross-sectional study on obesity and menstrual abnormalities among women of reproductive age in urban field practice area of Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangalore

Morbidity pattern in the school going adolescent girls of rural and urban Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh

Parent-peer attachment, negative automatic thoughts and psychological problems among Pakistani adolescents: A moderated mediation model

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