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Age at menarche and menstrual complications: a cross cultural study among hostel students in Tirupati, Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh, India

机译:月经初潮年龄和月经并发症:印度安得拉邦Chittoor区Tirupati宿舍学生之间的跨文化研究

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Background: Menarche is an important biological and physiological event, which occur in the lifecycle of every normal female. This is accompanied by many morphological, physiological changes in the body. The age of menarche is generally between 10-16 years. The objectives was to assess the age at menarche and menstrual complications among hostel students during menstrual period. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study in which 326 girl students staying at hostel were selected by retrospective method of recall and were evaluated. The exact date of menarche and also any complications occur during menstruation period like pre menstrual syndrome (PMS), irregular periods, painful periods etc. was noted. Results: In the present study majority of the women attain menstruation at the 14th year of their age (31.0%). The mean menarcheal age was 13.83±1.209 years. It was found that among 18.7% are getting irregular periods, 77.9% reported to have premenstrual symptoms and 31.3% students having a set of symptoms like abdominal or back pain / feeling heaviness of the body this was the major ailment suffered by most of the students. It was reported that 53.4% are having painful periods. Conclusions: Create awareness related to reduce disease burden and poor health outcome associated with poor menstrual complications and self care has to be taken among this group to Promote positive attitudes towards the mean age at menarche and menstruation related problems among the adolescent girls is the need of the hour. Hence, we suggest that health education programs regarding PMS and other menstrual problems must be included in the curriculum of secondary schools to bring down the prevalence of such problems.
机译:背景:月经初潮是重要的生物学和生理事件,发生在每个正常女性的生命周期中。这伴随着身体的许多形态,生理变化。初潮年龄一般在10-16岁之间。目的是评估月经期宿舍学生的初潮年龄和月经并发症。方法:这是一项横断面研究,其中通过回顾性回忆方法选择了326名留在宿舍的女学生并进行了评估。注意到月经初潮的确切日期以及在月经期发生的任何并发症,例如月经前综合症(PMS),月经不调,痛苦期等。结果:在本研究中,大多数女性在其14岁时达到月经(31.0%)。平均月经年龄为13.83±1.209岁。结果发现,在18.7%的不规则时期中,有77.9%的人报告有经前症状,31.3%的学生有一系列症状,如腹部或背部疼痛/身体沉重,这是大多数学生遭受的主要疾病。据报道,有53.4%的人处于痛苦时期。结论:在这一群体中必须建立与减轻疾病负担和与不良月经并发症有关的不良健康结局相关的认识,并且必须进行自我保健,以促进对初潮平均年龄的积极态度以及与青春期女孩有关的月经相关问题。小时。因此,我们建议在中学课程中必须纳入有关PMS和其他月经问题的健康教育计划,以降低此类问题的普遍性。

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