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Menstrual disorders and quality of life of women in an urban area of Puducherry: A community-based cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: Menstrual disorders are common among women in reproductive age group and affect their normal functioning and social life. Due to cultural reasons, menstrual problems often get unreported. In India, the literature on the effect of menstrual disorders on the quality of life (QOL) of women...
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author | Laksham, Karthik Balajee Selvaraj, Ramya Kar, Sitanshu Sekhar |
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description | BACKGROUND: Menstrual disorders are common among women in reproductive age group and affect their normal functioning and social life. Due to cultural reasons, menstrual problems often get unreported. In India, the literature on the effect of menstrual disorders on the quality of life (QOL) of women is limited. OBJECTIVES: To estimate the prevalence of menorrhagia and dysmenorrhea among women in an urban field practice area and to compare their QOL with women without menstrual disorders. METHODS: This is a community-based cross-sectional study among women who have attained menarche and not yet attained menopause in an urban field practice area of a tertiary care teaching institute in Puducherry. Households were selected by systematic random sampling, and a door-to-door survey was done using an Android-based mobile phone app Epi Info. A pretested questionnaire was used for collection of sociodemographic details. QOL was measured using World Health Organization BREF scale. RESULTS: A total of 119 women were interviewed, and their mean (standard deviation) age was 33 (10) years. The majority was homemakers (63%), belonging to lower socioeconomic status (60%) and one-fifth had no formal education. The prevalence of dysmenorrhea was 45% [95% confidence interval (CI): 36.6%–54.4%] and that of menorrhagia was 17% (95% CI: 11.6%–25.3%). QOL in women with dysmenorrhea was poor compared with normal women in physical, psychological, social, and environmental domains (mean score 57.9 vs. 69.7, P < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: Prevalence of dysmenorrhea and menorrhagia is comparatively high in this study area. QOL of women with these disorders was poor. |
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spelling | pubmed-63965832019-03-25 Menstrual disorders and quality of life of women in an urban area of Puducherry: A community-based cross-sectional study Laksham, Karthik Balajee Selvaraj, Ramya Kar, Sitanshu Sekhar J Family Med Prim Care Original Article BACKGROUND: Menstrual disorders are common among women in reproductive age group and affect their normal functioning and social life. Due to cultural reasons, menstrual problems often get unreported. In India, the literature on the effect of menstrual disorders on the quality of life (QOL) of women is limited. OBJECTIVES: To estimate the prevalence of menorrhagia and dysmenorrhea among women in an urban field practice area and to compare their QOL with women without menstrual disorders. METHODS: This is a community-based cross-sectional study among women who have attained menarche and not yet attained menopause in an urban field practice area of a tertiary care teaching institute in Puducherry. Households were selected by systematic random sampling, and a door-to-door survey was done using an Android-based mobile phone app Epi Info. A pretested questionnaire was used for collection of sociodemographic details. QOL was measured using World Health Organization BREF scale. RESULTS: A total of 119 women were interviewed, and their mean (standard deviation) age was 33 (10) years. The majority was homemakers (63%), belonging to lower socioeconomic status (60%) and one-fifth had no formal education. The prevalence of dysmenorrhea was 45% [95% confidence interval (CI): 36.6%–54.4%] and that of menorrhagia was 17% (95% CI: 11.6%–25.3%). QOL in women with dysmenorrhea was poor compared with normal women in physical, psychological, social, and environmental domains (mean score 57.9 vs. 69.7, P < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: Prevalence of dysmenorrhea and menorrhagia is comparatively high in this study area. QOL of women with these disorders was poor. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2019-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6396583/ /pubmed/30911494 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_209_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Laksham, Karthik Balajee Selvaraj, Ramya Kar, Sitanshu Sekhar Menstrual disorders and quality of life of women in an urban area of Puducherry: A community-based cross-sectional study |
title | Menstrual disorders and quality of life of women in an urban area of Puducherry: A community-based cross-sectional study |
title_full | Menstrual disorders and quality of life of women in an urban area of Puducherry: A community-based cross-sectional study |
title_fullStr | Menstrual disorders and quality of life of women in an urban area of Puducherry: A community-based cross-sectional study |
title_full_unstemmed | Menstrual disorders and quality of life of women in an urban area of Puducherry: A community-based cross-sectional study |
title_short | Menstrual disorders and quality of life of women in an urban area of Puducherry: A community-based cross-sectional study |
title_sort | menstrual disorders and quality of life of women in an urban area of puducherry: a community-based cross-sectional study |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6396583/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30911494 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_209_18 |
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