Quality of life and symptom severity in premenstrual syndrome: a quasi-experimental study
Online braz. j. nurs. (Online)
;
21: e20226559, 01 jan 2022. tab
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in English
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| ID: biblio-1378211
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
The current study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of group counseling on quality of life and symptom severity among university students with Premenstrual Syndrome.METHOD:
After filling in PSST and participating in SCID-CV, 120 students answered the demographic and WHOQOL questionnaires. Using classified random sampling, they were divided into control and intervention groups. The Intervention Group participants attended six group counseling ses-sions. They post-tested at two moments (immediate post-test and after one month).RESULTS:
The results of the immediate post-test indicated improvements in overall quality and in some domains (p<0.005) in the Intervention Group, and the second post-test showed an improvement in two of the domains (p<0.005). One month later, some symptoms were clearly improved in the Intervention Group (p<0.005).CONCLUSION:
Group counseling improved the students' quality of life and severity of the Premenstrual Syndrome symptoms.
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Index:
LILACS (Americas)
Main subject:
Quality of Life
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Students, Health Occupations
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Universities
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Premenstrual Syndrome
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Counseling
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
Limits:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Online braz. j. nurs. (Online)
Journal subject:
Nursing
Year:
2022
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Iran
Institution/Affiliation country:
Kerman University of Medical Sciences/IR
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