Volume : VII, Issue : IV, April - 2018

DYSMENORRHOEA AMONG TEEN AGE GROUP GIRLS-A BURNING ISSUE

Dr Satya Ranjan Das

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Dysmenorrhoea is the most common gynecologic complaint among adolescent and young adult females. Aim of the study was to the prevalence ofdysmenorrhoea among teen girls (13 to 19) year’s patients presenting with menorrhagia or without menorrhagia. The prevalence of dysmenorrhea was 65.11%. Majority of the girls with dysmenorrhea (58.03%) report a menstrual cycle of 22-28 days, where as 33.03 % of them have a menstrual cycle of 29-35 days and 8.9% report to have a menstrual cycle of more than 35 days. Maximum number of dysmenorrhic girls (78.6 % ) report 4-5 days of bleeding and few of them reported to have <3 days and 5-7 days of bleeding (8.9% and 12.5% respectively ). 67.8% of the girls with dysmenorrhea reported presence of blood clots in their menstrual flow.Dysmenorrhoea is a very common problem among adolescent girls, and they experience a number of physical and emotional symptoms associated with dysmenorrhea and it also affects their quality of life.

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Dr Satya Ranjan Das, DYSMENORRHOEA AMONG TEEN AGE GROUP GIRLS-A BURNING ISSUE, GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS : Volume-7 | Issue-4 | April-2018

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