A study to assess the prevalence of premenstrual syndrome and coping behavior among adolescent girls

Abstract

Premenstrual syndromes are the symptoms which occur during one week before menstruation and sometime symptoms are so severe enough to disturb life cycle of a women. She adopts different method to cope-up with problem. The aim of the present study was to assess the prevalence of premenstrual syndrome and coping behavior among adolescent girls. Objectives: To assess the premenstrual symptoms and coping strategies among adolescent girls. To associate the level of premenstrual syndrome and coping strategies with selected demographic variables such as age, age at menarche, Duration of the cycle, frequency of the cycle, use of pads and source of information regarding PMS. Methodology: PMMS questionnaire was used in the study. Sample was selected by using purposive sampling technique with the size of 50 samples. Level of premenstrual syndrome and coping behavior among adolescent girls was assesed. The findings showed that the level of mean value of premenstrual symptoms among adolescent girls 44.36 with SD 4.74 and the mean value level of coping behaviour was 11.32 with SD 8.43. Conclusion: on the basis of the study the investigator has concluded that proper action need to be taken to educate and increase the awareness among the adolescent girls and to provide better to alleviate the symptoms of PMS.