--- title: Can a mental health training program help teenage girls with PMS? description: Yes. Teenage girls who went through a training program had less physical complaints, anxiety, sleep problems, social difficulties, and depression than girls w url: https://niyora.com/research/papers/implementing-of-mental-health-training-programs-for-promotion-of-health-affected-2020/ --- - [Niyora](https://niyora.com/) - [Research](https://niyora.com/research/) - [Library](https://niyora.com/research/library/) - Can a mental health training program help teenage girls with PMS? Randomised trial, 2020 # Can a mental health training program help teenage girls with PMS? Yes. Teenage girls who went through a training program had less physical complaints, anxiety, sleep problems, social difficulties, and depression than girls who did not. Moderate study design 100 teenage girls with PMS in Shiraz, Iran, selected from a pool of 400 ## What they did Researchers in Shiraz, Iran, ran a randomized controlled trial with 100 teenage girls who had PMS (chosen from a larger group of 400). Half got six training sessions, twice a week, two hours each; the other half did not. They measured mental health and PMS symptoms using two standard questionnaires before comparing the groups. ## What they found Average age was about 16.56 years in the training group and 16.24 years in the control group. The training group had significantly lower average scores for physical complaints, anxiety, sleep disorder, social function problems, and depression compared to the control group (P < 0.001). ## What it means for you A structured mental health training program may genuinely help teenage girls cope better with PMS symptoms. This was done in one city in Iran with teenagers only, so it may not apply to adult women or other settings, and the abstract does not say how long the benefits lasted. 100 Participants 6 Training sessions P<0.001 P-value for improvements ## About the study Original title Implementing of mental health training programs for promotion of health affected teenage girls to premenstrual syndrome: A community-based study Authors Abootalebi M, Dehghani M, Akbarzadeh M Journal Journal of education and health promotion Year 2020 Study design Randomised trial Participants 100 What was tested Six mental health training sessions, twice weekly, 2 hours each Open access Yes Read the paper [doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_118_20](https://doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_118_20) ## Topics [Premenstrual syndrome (PMS)](https://niyora.com/research/topics/condition-pms/)[Irritability and anger](https://niyora.com/research/topics/symptom-irritability-anger/)[Adolescents and young people](https://niyora.com/research/topics/life-area-adolescents/) Research tells you what helps on average. Niyora helps on the day it hits. Calm down, see it another way, and decide what to say, with a PMS and PMDD app built by a doctor. ## Related studies Cohort study, 2025 How common is PMS in Chinese teenage girls, and what factors are linked to it? Survey study, 2025 What psychological and personal factors predict which university students will develop premenstrual syndrome? Survey study, 2024 Is physical activity linked to PMS symptoms? Non-randomised trial, 2024 Does a relaxation technique called SEFT help reduce premenstrual symptoms in teenagers? Cohort study, 2023 How common are premenstrual symptoms among teenage girls? Survey study, 2022 Is premenstrual syndrome related to aggression in adolescent girls? Ask AI about this page Copy prompt ChatGPT ↗ Claude ↗ Perplexity ↗ Google AI Mode ↗ Grok ↗