Survey study, 2022
What do health college students believe about PMS and how do they cope with it?
We cannot say, because the available summary only describes the survey tools used and does not report the actual results on beliefs or coping strategies.
What they did
A cross-sectional survey of 239 female health college students aged 18-25 (years 2-4, in Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Applied Medical Sciences, Medical Rehabilitation and Dentistry) at Qassim University, Saudi Arabia. Three self-administered questionnaires were used: one on background details, one with 25 questions on health beliefs about PMS, and one with 33 questions on coping strategies.
What they found
The abstract describes the study design and tools in detail but does not state the actual scores, percentages, or results found for beliefs or coping strategies.
What it means for you
This paper sets up how beliefs and coping around PMS were measured, but without the results we cannot know what students actually believed or did. It is a single-site, convenience-sample survey, so even full results would not generalise widely.
239
Students surveyed
18-25
Age range
33
Coping strategy questions
About the study
- Original title
- Health beliefs and coping strategies regarding premenstrual syndrome among health college students at Qassim University
- Authors
- Shereen Ahmed Ahmed Qalawa, Hind Omar Alsuhaibani, Atheer Abdullah Alluhaydan et al.
- Journal
- International Journal of Health Sciences
- Year
- 2022
- Study design
- Survey study
- What was tested
- none; survey using three questionnaires on beliefs and coping strategies
- Open access
- Yes
- Read the paper
- doi.org/10.53730/ijhs.v6ns8.13145
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