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title: Can learning coping strategies reduce anxiety in girls with PMS?
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Randomised trial, 2020

# Can learning coping strategies reduce anxiety in girls with PMS?

In this small study, a 10-session coping skills training program lowered anxiety scores in girls with PMS more than in a comparison group, but the study was small so this is not strong proof.

 Early or limited evidence

32 high school girls with PMS in Ardabil, Iran

## What they did

A pre-test/post-test study with a training group and a control group. 32 high school girls with PMS in Ardabil, Iran were split into the two groups. Both groups filled in a PMS symptom questionnaire and the Beck Anxiety Scale before and after. The training group attended coping strategies classes over 10 sessions of two hours each.

## What they found

Anxiety scores dropped significantly more in the group that got coping skills training than in the control group (F=16.01, p=.0001, partial eta squared=0.35).

## What it means for you

Coping skills training may help ease anxiety that comes with PMS, but this was a very small study (32 girls) in one city, without full randomization, so the results need confirming in bigger, better-controlled studies.

32

Participants

16.01

F value for anxiety drop

0.35

Effect size (partial eta²)

## About the study

Original title The effect of coping methods in reducing anxiety among girls with premenstrual syndrome Authors Roya Motavalli, Vida Sadrolmamaleki, Serap Ejder Apay Journal DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) Year 2020 Study design Randomised trial Participants 32 What was tested 10 two-hour sessions of coping strategies training Read the paper [doi.org/10.22098/jrp.2021.1202](https://doi.org/10.22098/jrp.2021.1202)

## Topics

[Premenstrual syndrome (PMS)](https://niyora.com/research/topics/condition-pms/)[Anxiety and tension](https://niyora.com/research/topics/symptom-anxiety/)[Stress](https://niyora.com/research/topics/symptom-stress/)[Work and productivity](https://niyora.com/research/topics/life-area-work/)[Students and academic performance](https://niyora.com/research/topics/life-area-education/)[Adolescents and young people](https://niyora.com/research/topics/life-area-adolescents/)

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