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title: Can an anxiety questionnaire help identify PMS in high school girls?
description: The study tested whether an anxiety questionnaire could distinguish girls with and without PMS, but the abstract does not report the actual results.
url: https://niyora.com/research/papers/an-attempt-to-apply-spielberg-s-self-assessment-questionnaire-in-cases-of-1993/
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Survey study, 1993

# Can an anxiety questionnaire help identify PMS in high school girls?

The study tested whether an anxiety questionnaire could distinguish girls with and without PMS, but the abstract does not report the actual results.

 Early or limited evidence

143 high school girls

## What they did

They gave an anonymous anxiety questionnaire to 143 high school girls. They divided the girls into two groups: those with PMS symptoms and those without. The questionnaire measured anxiety on two subscales called fear-condition and fear-feature.

## What they found

The abstract describes the method but does not report the results or findings from the questionnaire.

## What it means for you

This study tested whether anxiety measures could identify PMS, but without reported results, we cannot know whether the method worked. The abstract is incomplete.

143

girls surveyed

2

groups compared

## About the study

Original title [An attempt to apply Spielberg's self-assessment questionnaire in cases of premenstrual syndrome in girls] Authors Ciszek V, Watorska H Journal Ginekologia polska Year 1993 Study design Survey study Participants 143 What was tested Spielberg's self-assessment anxiety questionnaire Read the paper [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8375720/](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8375720/)

## Topics

[Premenstrual syndrome (PMS)](https://niyora.com/research/topics/condition-pms/)[Anxiety and tension](https://niyora.com/research/topics/symptom-anxiety/)[Adolescents and young people](https://niyora.com/research/topics/life-area-adolescents/)

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