The Effect of Nutrition Education on Premenstrual Syndrome: Randomized Controlled Study
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 83
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- The effectiveness of the nutrition education given to the experimental group was evaluated with the Premenstrual Syndrome Scale.
研究概览
简要总结
The aim of our study is to examine the effect of nutritional education given to university students with premenstrual syndrome (PMS) on premenstrual symptom severity, nutrient intake and anthropometric measures. Our hypothesis is that nutrition education reduces symptoms in students with PMS. The effect of nutrition education on premenstrual syndrome was evaluated. The sample for this study included 83 female students, with 43 in the experimental and 40 in the control group, who were studying at the health sciences faculty of a state university and met the inclusion criteria. Experimental and control groups were formed by randomized method. Nutrition training was given to the experimental group. Participant data were collected before and four months after nutrition training. The data were collected with the personal information form, Premenstrual Syndrome Scale and food consumption record form. Nutrient amounts were determined in the Nutrition Information System (BEBİS) program.
详细描述
- INTRODUCTION Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) is a condition in which physical, psychological and emotional symptoms related to the menstrual cycle of women are seen together. These symptoms experienced by many women occur before menstruation and disappear with menstrual bleeding. Imbalance in estrogen and progesterone levels, stress and malnutrition are among the factors affecting PMS.
PMS, which has many symptoms such as changes in appetite, increased body weight, abdominal pain, back pain, headache, breast swelling and sensitivity, irritability, and fatigue, has incidence in Turkey in the range of 58.1% to 91.8%. It is known that individuals who do not exercise regularly, eat too much salt and sugar, and have high stress levels experience more PMS symptoms. While the presence of PMS in women causes an increase in health expenditures, loss of labor and low quality of life, in addition to these, it causes low concentration, absenteeism from school and academic failure.
The etiology of premenstrual syndrome is not fully known, but one of the most emphasized reasons is hormone imbalance. Since the pathophysiology of PMS is not known exactly, the aim is to alleviate the severity of the symptoms during treatment of this syndrome. Non-pharmacological treatment methods such as exercise and diet are used. Studies reported that there is a positive relationship between increasing body mass index (BMI) and the risk of PMS. The incidence and severity of PMS is accepted to increase with simple carbohydrate consumption, and the aim is to reduce simple carbohydrate consumption and increase complex carbohydrate and fiber consumption in the treatment of PMS. It is reported that the consumption of foods with high fat content is a diet that increases the severity of PMS. Excessive consumption of salt, sugar, caffeine and alcohol negatively affects PMS.
Studies conducted so far revealed various causes of PMS, and the effect of malnutrition on the etiology of PMS was mentioned. However, there are a few studies on providing nutrition training to individuals with PMS. Studies were conducted to show that excessive consumption of certain foods such as salt, sugar and caffeine, and insufficient intake of calcium, magnesium, B group vitamins and many other nutrients increase the severity of PMS. However, studies to reduce the severity of PMS by providing nutrition training to women with PMS are limited. This study was carried out to examine the effect of nutritional education given to nursing students studying at university on premenstrual symptom severity, nutrient intake and anthropometric measures.
Research hypotheses:
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Single (Participant)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- Female
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Volunteer to participate in the study
- •have a regular menstrual cycle
- •be 18 years or older
排除标准
- •have a chronic illness
- •have been on a diet in the last 3 months
- •using oral contraceptives
结局指标
主要结局
The effectiveness of the nutrition education given to the experimental group was evaluated with the Premenstrual Syndrome Scale.
时间窗: 3 months
The Premenstrual Syndrome Scale consists of 44 questions. The PMSS is Likert type and its items are scored between 1 and 5 points. Lowest points of 44 and highest points of 220 can be obtained on the PMSS. The scale has a total of 9 subscales: depressive feeling, anxiety, fatigue, irritability, depressive thoughts, pain, changes in appetite, changes in sleeping habits and swelling. A higher score on the scale indicates that the severity of premenstrual syndrome is high. When the score of the total PMSS and subscales is higher than 50% of the total score, it is considered to indicate PMS.
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Duygu MATARACI DEĞİRMENCİ
research assistant
T.C. ORDU ÜNİVERSİTESİ