事故와 月經週期간의 相互關係

A Correlation between Accident and Menstrual Cycle

Although there have been many studies in the accident proneness, little attention appears to have been given to the part possibly played by menstruation. In some previous studies of menstrual disorders, it was observed tnat the reaction time was slow and the judgement impaired during the premenstrual period. As both judgement and reaction time are important factors in the avoidance of accidents, it was felt that a study of women involved in accidents might reveal a correlation between accident and menstruation. The author surveyed menstrual cycle of 90 patients with accidents who visited Han Gang Sacred Heart Hospital from 1st June 1979... to 31st Aug. 1980. In order to determine the phase in which they met the accidents and to explore the correlation between accident and menstruation, the menstruation cycle of 28 days was divided into seven, 4-day periods by Dalton’s method. The results were as follows： The accidents of 90 patients were found to have ocurred most frequently during menstrual period (18. 9%)t followed by the period of the 5th day through the 8th day (16.7%), mid-cycle period (16. l% ) y and premenstrual period (16.1%), A total of 35.6% of the patients had accidents during menstrual and premenstrual period. The author, therefore, suggested that there was a relationship between the phases of the menstrual cycle and accidents.