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The Degree and Self-management of Menstrual Discomfort in College Female Students

The purpose of this study was to examine the degree of menstrual discomfort and self-management of menstrual discomfort in college female students and to provide basic information for health education. The subjects were 215 college female students who were non-married and ranged in grade from 1 to 4. Data were collected from Nov. 1 to Nov. 30, 2001 by the structured questionnaires. The instruments, which were used for this study, were the revised Menstrual Distress Questionnaire(MDQ) developed by Moos(1 968), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) developed by Beck(1967) and the general characteristic scale developed by researchers. The data were analyzed by the SPSS Win 11.0 PC+ program using t-test, ANOVA, and stepwise multiple regression. The results were as follows : 1. There were statistically significant differences in the score of college women’s self reported menstrual discomfort according to the grade(F=3.79, P=0.05) and depending whether one has taken health education class or not(t=2.98, P=0.00). 2. The characteristics of menstrual discomfort were low abdominal pain, fatigue, back pain, headache, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting. 3. The degree of menstrual discomfort was shown 67.9% of discomfort experiment and early come back home from school or absent for school was 6.5%. 4. The self-management of menstrual discomfort was shown ‘massaging on φe abdomen and bed rest’was 44.2%, ‘tolerance’was 34.0%. 5. Mean score of menstrual discomfort was 99.57(range 35-210). 6. The related factors to the degree of menstrual discomfort among college women were in grade, depending whether one has taken health education class or not and depression. These factors explained 43% of total variance of the degree of menstrual discomfort.