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title: Can resilience counseling reduce PMS severity in teenage girls?
description: Yes, resilience counseling significantly reduced PMS severity in high school girls, with most moving from severe symptoms to mild or moderate symptoms.
url: https://niyora.com/research/papers/the-effect-of-resilient-counseling-on-the-symptoms-of-premenstrual-syndrome-2022/
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Randomised trial, 2022

# Can resilience counseling reduce PMS severity in teenage girls?

Yes, resilience counseling significantly reduced PMS severity in high school girls, with most moving from severe symptoms to mild or moderate symptoms.

 Moderate study design

120 high school girls in Hamadan, Iran with PMS

## What they did

Randomized controlled trial with 120 high school girls in Hamadan, Iran with PMS. The intervention group of 60 girls attended eight 1-hour sessions of resilience counseling. The control group of 60 received no intervention. Researchers measured PMS severity and resilience scores before and after.

## What they found

At baseline, 61.7% of the intervention group and 63.3% of the control group had severe PMS. After counseling, 36.7% of the intervention group reported mild symptoms and 46.4% reported moderate symptoms (statistically significant change). The control group showed no significant improvement. Resilience scores in the intervention group increased from 50.5 to 67.3.

## What it means for you

Counseling focused on building resilience may help teenage girls with PMS feel better and improve their ability to cope. The study was conducted in one city in Iran, so we would need to test this in other places to see if results apply everywhere.

120

girls in the study

61.7%

had severe PMS at baseline

36.7%

reported mild symptoms after counseling

## About the study

Original title The effect of resilient counseling on the symptoms of premenstrual syndrome among adolescent girls in Hamadan, Iran, 2018: A clinical trial Authors Seyedeh Zahra Masoumi, Narges Babakhani, Batoul Khodakarami et al. Journal Nursing and Midwifery Studies Year 2022 Study design Randomised trial Participants 60 What was tested Eight 1-hour sessions of resilience counseling Open access Yes Read the paper [doi.org/10.4103/nms.nms_3_22](https://doi.org/10.4103/nms.nms_3_22)

## Topics

[Premenstrual syndrome (PMS)](https://niyora.com/research/topics/condition-pms/)[Psychotherapy, counselling and education](https://niyora.com/research/topics/treatment-psychotherapy/)[Adolescents and young people](https://niyora.com/research/topics/life-area-adolescents/)

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