Type of Article : Original Research
Year: 2016 | Volume 4 | Issue 3 | Page No. 1550-1553
Date of Publication: 11-06-2016
DOI: 10.16965/ijpr.2016.130
A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY TO ASSESS THE PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME AND COPING BEHAVIOUR AMONG WOMEN
Camy Bhagat *, Paras Bhura.
Lecturer, BITS Institute of Physiotherapy, Vadodara, Gujarat, India.
E-Mail: camybhagat.bitsph@bitseducampus.ac.in
Premenstrual syndrome are the symptoms which occur during one week before menstruation and some time symptoms are so severe enough to disturb life cycle of a women. She adopt different method to cope-up with problem. A descriptive study was conducted among women to assess the premenstrual syndrome and coping behaviour among them. A total 248 women were selected for collection of data. The questionnaire consisted of two parts. Part one is assessment of premenstrual syndrome and part two is for check list on coping behaviour. The most commonly (79.43%) out of 248 having were lower abdominal pain. (66.12%) having backache, (52.01%) having low efficiency of work performance. Majority of them were using healthy coping strategies. (89.11%) do not blame themselves for the this problem, (75.40%) accept it as nothing can be done , (98.11%) take hot or cold drinks.
Key Words: Premenstrual Syndrome, Coping behaviour, Menstruation, Abdominal Pain, Low Back ache.
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Camy Bhagat, Paras Bhura. A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY TO ASSESS THE PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME AND COPING BEHAVIOUR AMONG WOMEN. Int J Physiother Res 2016;4(3):1550-1553. DOI: 10.16965/ijpr.2016.130
