Primary dysmenorrhea frequency and menstrual attitudes of a nursing faculty students
Entry
maturation in young girls,
most important transition from childhood to adulthood
Menarche, which is one of the many changes
brings with it the problem. This
one of the most common problems in
is dysmenorrhea.1,2 Dysmenorrhea is the most common
primary dysmenorrhea, which is the most common form,
before menstruation or
in the lower abdomen with menstruation
pain that begins, back pain and radiating to the legs
a gynecological condition characterized by pain
3 Pain is often associated with menstrual
It is experienced on the first day of bleeding.1 Primary
discomfort in dysmenorrhea, usually bleeding
occur 1-2 days before the onset,
more serious symptoms of menstrual bleeding
seen in the first 24 hours and the second
day remission diagnostic criteria
3 Nausea, diarrhea, headache
dizziness, insomnia, anxiety/irritability, and
dysmenorrhea accompanied by depressive feelings
its prevalence is stated as 20-90%.4
Identify the cause of primary dysmenorrhea beforehand.
Since there is no pathology to explain
was attributed only to psychological factors.3
Today, dysmenorrhea is associated with ovulation.
pressures related to sexuality,
deficiencies in sexual identity development
are among the accepted causes.3
severity and the individual's response to pain
Treatment of dysmenorrhea associated with
It is directional.4 Bed in colic pain
rest, warm application and physician
Necessary treatment is done on demand.5 Many
pharmacological and surgical treatments for women
Conservative treatment options (local
heat treatment, good nutrition, regular
exercise, regular and adequate sleep, massage and
positive attitude development) enough
5 However, these applications
individuals in order to
education should be given importance.
When the literature is examined
academic success of dysmenorrhea, job
and daily life, emotional and interpersonal
can have negative effects on their relationships.
6 Quality of life of individuals
with these symptoms that adversely affect
reproduction to help them cope
within the scope of health, menstruation,
on dysmenorrhea and self-care
information plays an important role.
Dysmenorrhea in college students
in order to inform about
various educational activities in schools
organized and needing support
individual students on the subject
counseling should be done.5
Purpose: Research nursing
The frequency of primary dysmenorrhea and
in order to determine menstrual attitudes
done.
Method
The research was designed in cross-sectional type.
Research, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa
Florence Nightingale School of Nursing
(IUC-FNHF) October 2017-June 2018
carried out between
The universe of the research; He studied at IUCFNHF in 2017-2018.
made up of all female students. Stated
956 who studied at the faculty between
There were female students and
584 female students volunteered to participate in the study.
were included (61.0%).
Dependent variables: Primary
dysmenorrhea (10 on the Visual Analogue Scale)
getting seven points or more out of points)
Independent variables: Age, menstrual
attitude, dysmenorrhea knowledge level scores, pain
severity, use of non-pharmacological methods
Exhibitor Introduction Form: Literature
Exhibitor Presentation prepared in line with
Socio-demographic information in the Form (KTF),
the state of experiencing pain during the menstrual period,
vaginal discharge feature, in the presence of menstrual pain
questions about the applications applied
place is given.
Dysmenorrhea Fact Sheet: Literature
Developed with the support of Dysmenorrhea Information
Menstrual attitudes and
Questions about dysmenorrhea are included.
Questions with true and false options
prepared to be answered.
Functional and Emotional Dysmenorrhea
(Painful Menstruation) Scale: Consisting of 14 items
Functional and Emotional Dysmenorrhea
The scale (FEDS) measures dysmenorrhea functional and
to evaluate emotionally
It is a Likert-type scale used. Li et al.7
validity of the scale developed by
reliability study by Gün2
has been made. 14 items and two sub-dimensions
Cronbach's Alpha of FEDO
coefficient is 0.91.2 Each item is one to five
are scored between inverted in scale
There is no item. Scores from the scale
functional impairment of dysmenorrhea increases
and emotionally affected levels.
increasing.
2nd
Menstruation Attitude Scale: Developed by BrooksGunn and Ruble8,
Validity and validity by Kulakaç et al.9
Menstruation with reliability study
Attitude Scale (ABL) consists of 33 items and five
It is a scale consisting of subscales. scale likert
type and between 1-7
is being evaluated. your original scale
reliability coefficient is 0.95-0.97.
In the Menstruation Attitude Scale
items, subgroups, or scale
the average of the scores from all
high, menstrual
that the attitude is “positive”
shows.9
Visual Analog Scale: 10 cm
On the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS), "0" pain
and “10” is the most severe pain.
indicates level. in scale
<3 mild pain, 3-6 moderate pain, >6
reported as severe pain.
10
Data are collected by students
classroom, garden, club and canteen
in socializing spaces such as
self-answer or under observation
collected by answering method.
Findings of the research
for statistical analysis
IBM SPSS Statistics 22 (IBM SPSS, Turkey)
program was used. In the analysis of data
number, percent, standard deviation, pearson
correlation, Student's t test and one-way
analysis of variance ANOVA test was used.
“p<0.05” as statistical significance level
accepted.
Ethical permission of the research T.C. Istanbul
University of Social Sciences and Humanities Ethics
Received from the Board of Directors (Number: 35980450-663.05-
Date: 31/07/2017). of the research
IUC-FNHF to be applied
Necessary institutional permission was obtained from the Dean's Office.
Of the students included in the sample
Informed Voluntary Consent Form
Written consent was obtained through
Limitations of the study
Probabilistic sampling method
volunteer students without the use of
research due to the
results for this sample only.
can be generalized.