Survey study, 2022
Does PMS hurt quality of life in young nursing students?
Yes, students who had PMS tended to have poor quality of life, and the worse their PMS, the worse their quality of life, though this can't prove PMS directly causes the poor quality of life.
What they did
A descriptive cross-sectional study of 446 female nursing students in their first and second year at Tanta University, Egypt (2019-2020). Students answered questionnaires about their PMS experience and completed the WHO Quality of Life (WHOQOL-BREF) tool.
What they found
More than two thirds of the students said they had experienced PMS, while less than a third had not. Most of those with PMS had poor quality of life, and there was a strong negative correlation between PMS severity and quality of life scores.
What it means for you
PMS seems common among these nursing students and is strongly tied to feeling less well in daily life, which suggests education and support programs about PMS could help. But this is a one-time survey at a single university, with no control group, so it can't prove PMS is the cause of the poorer quality of life.
446
Students studied
>2/3
Reported having PMS
<1/3
Reported no PMS
About the study
- Original title
- The Effect of Premenstrual Syndrome among Adolescent Nursing Female Students on Their Quality of Life
- Authors
- Fatma Elzahraa Elsayed Soliman, Hanan Abo El-Gamelen Ebrahim Essa, Amira A. Elbialy
- Journal
- Tanta Scientific Nursing Journal
- Year
- 2022
- Study design
- Survey study
- Participants
- 446
- What was tested
- None; this was an observational survey, no treatment was tested
- Open access
- Yes
- Read the paper
- doi.org/10.21608/tsnj.2022.221605
Original abstract
Background: Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) may adversely affect physical and social activities of women's lives and their quality of life (QOL). Thus, understanding health-related QOL of adolescent nursing females affected with PMS is so more essential. Aim: to assess the effect of premenstrual syndrome among adolescent nursing female students on their quality of life. Design: A descriptive research design. Setting: This study was conducted at Faculty of Nursing, Tanta University. Subjects: A convenience sample of 446 female nursing students was taken from the first and second academic grades at the academic year 2019-2020. Tools: Two tools were used. Tool I: An assessment questionnaire sheet: It consisted of two parts as follows: Part (1): Bio- socio demographic characteristics of female nursing students: A) Socio-demographic characteristics of female students and B) Menstrual history of female students. Part (2): Personal experience of the female students regarding premenstrual syndrome. Tool II: WHO Quality Of Life (WHOQOL-BREF) questionnaire. Results: More than two thirds of the studied females mentioned that they were previously complained of PMS while less than one third of them had no previous PMS. Most of them had poor QOL as a result of PMS. Conclusion: Negative highly significant correlations were found between the studied females’ QOL and their total level of PMS. Recommendations: Health education programs about PMS and its coping behaviors should be conducted for adolescent and nursing female students to improve their QOL.
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