Premenstrual syndrome and factors associated with it among secondary and preparatory school students in Debremarkos town, North-west Ethiopia, 2016

Abstract

Objective The purpose of this study was to assess the magnitude of premenstrual syndrome and its associated factors among secondary school students in Debremarkos, North west Ethiopia. Results Premenstrual syndrome was reported by 81.3% of the participants. Statistically significant association was observed between the occurrence of PMS and age, AOR (CI) 1.20 (1.01, 1.44), involving in heavy non-academic duties, AOR 95% (CI) 2.13 (1.17, 3.89), early menarche (< 12 years), AOR (95% CI) 2.68 (1.32, 5.47) and long menstrual cycles (> 35 days), AOR (95% CI) 0.13 (0.02, 0.75).

Association of socio-demographic, dietary and lifestyle factors with Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) among undergraduate medical students of a tertiary care institute in Ahmedabad, Gujarat

“…The objective of this research was to find out the association between PMS/PMDD with various factors such as socio-demographic, dietary and lifestyle. In this study, the average age of study respondents was 20.41 (17.93-22.89) years, which was comparable with the studies done in Ethiopia[ 1 ] (17.61 ± 1.93 years), Bhavnagar, India[ 18 ] (18.9 ± 1.6 years), Iran[ 2 ] (16.0 ± 2.3 years), Turkey[ 19 ] (19.5 ± 1.3 years) and UAE[ 12 ] (20.07 ± 1.53 years) as far recruiting young adults in the study is concerned. The urban to rural difference was vast in the present study, which depends on the locality of the institute as well as the admission criteria for the medical courses.…”

“…Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is the term coined for a variety of symptoms occurring in the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle which resolves in some days of onset of menstrual blood flow. [ 1 ] Although the symptoms are of physical as well as psychological in nature, it is essentially a neuro-endocrine disorder with biological, social and psychological parameters. [ 2 ] It has been observed that more than 90% of the women throughout the world experience its symptoms which include, but not limited to, features like anxiety, irritability, headache, fatigue, breast tenderness, social withdrawal, change in mood, sleep disruption and depression.…”

Prevalence and associated factors of premenstrual syndrome among women of the reproductive age group in Ethiopia: Systematic review and meta-analysis

“…shows a statistically insignificant association between PMS and menstrual patterns [7]. The pooled odds ratio also shows a statistically insignificant association between menstrual pattern and PMS (OR: 3.19, 95% CI: 0.94,10.80) (Fig 4).…”

“…All studies included in this analysis were conducted using a cross-sectional study design [7,8,[16][17][18][19][20][21][22]. For eight of these studies, the premenstrual syndrome scoring tool of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Ed (DMS IV) was used while the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) was used for the remaining one study [7]. All the included studies were done from 2002 to 2019 and their sample size ranged from 181 [19] to 667 [17].…”

“…A wide range of prevalence rates was reported in the nine studies [7,8,[16][17][18][19][20][21][22]. The lowest prevalence of PMS, 27.00% (95% CI: 21.41, 32.59) was reported in a study among Jimma University female students [16].…”