Individual influences and social-cultural factors in the occurrence of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) / "Influências dos fatores individuais e sócio-culturais na ocorrência da síndrome pré-menstrual (SPM) em adolescentes"
AUTOR(ES)
Maria Regina Domingues de Azevedo
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2005
RESUMO
This work aimed at to evaluate the prevalence, to characterize symptoms and to identify related individuals and partner-cultural aspects to the PMS in Adolescents between 14 and 18 years old, and her mothers, through prospective study. The protocols based on the Moss s criteria had been filled in individual interviews. Descriptive analysis was preceded from the data. For categorical variable was used contingency tables, and as measured of association to Qui-square and the Fisher s Accurate Test. Analysis of Logistic Regression stepwise forward (WALD) was applied. 69.7% of adolescents with PMS were observed. The symptom most frequent was the sinewy (99,4%). They had shown to association with the PMS, mothers with PMS, connotation given to the menstruation and the PMS, influence of the group and the media, and expectation of the menarche
ASSUNTO(S)
adolescent psychology psicologia menstruaÇÃo sÍndrome prÉ-menstrual adolescente menstruation premenstrual syndrome
