anxiety sensitivity, perceived stress, personality traits and mental state of the relationship with premenstrual syndrome
Project no. 1264 · Status: Kapanmış · 2018
Summary
Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between anxiety sensitivity, perceived stress and personality traits with Premenstrual Syndrome. Methods: This study was conducted as descriptive study with 617 female students from Ege University Health Care Vocational School, between January 2018 and May 2018. As data collection tools; "Diagnosis Form" consisting of 33 questions including various socio-demographic characteristics such as age, income status, and menstrual period characteristics developed by researchers according to the literature, "Premenstrual Syndrome Scale" examining premenstrual syndrome, "Anxiety sensitivity index-3 (ASI-3)", "Perceived stress scale (PSS)" and "Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Revised/Abbreviated (EPQ) Scale" were used. Results: The premenstrual syndrome was detected in 52.9% of the students and 47.1% of the students were not found to have premenstrual syndrome. When the socio-demographic characteristics of the students with a mean age of 19.37 ± 0.70 (min = 18, max = 20) were examined according to PMS status; No statistically significant difference was found between the groups with and without PMS in terms of age, class, place of longest living, maternal education level and body mass index (p> .05). However, there was a statistically significant difference between the groups in terms of father's education level, income status, smoking status (p <.05). PMS incidence increases as father education and income level decreases. The rate of PMS was higher in non-smokers. PMS ratio was found to be higher in patients with irregular menstruation, those who felt negative to menstruation, who had pain during each menstruation, who had pain in their family during menstruation, who had low back pain, weakness, nervousness, cramps in the abdomen and legs, headache and concentration disorder during menstruation. When the mean scores of the subscales of ASI-3, PSS and EPQ of the participants were examined according to their PMS status; There was a statistically significant difference between the groups in terms of mean scores of ASI-3, PSS, neuroticism and psychoticism (p <.05). The mean scores of ASI-3, PSS, neuroticism and psychoticism were higher in the PMS group, compared to the non-PMS group. As PMS score increases anxiety sensitivity, perceived stress, neuroticism and psychoticism scores also increase. Conclusion: In our study, the rate of PMS was increased in young adult women who had severe physical problems during menstruation. In particular, there should be psychotherapeutic interventions with educational therapies to help these young adult women cope with PMS. Thus, regression of physical and mental symptoms and rehabilitation of the syndrome will be provided.