Primary dysmenorrhea frequency and menstrual attitudes of a nursing faculty students

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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.

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