Health beliefs and coping strategies regarding premenstrual syndrome among health college students at Qassim University
Keywords:
health beliefs, coping strategies, premenstrual syndrome, health college studentsAbstract
Background: Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is considered as a cyclic late luteal phase disorder of the menstrual period in which affected women daily living activities and their quality of life which recognized as a series psychological and physical indicators such as grief, anxiety, psychological disturbances, decreased daily living activities, fatigue, altered dietary habits, and sleep pattern disturbances. Aim : to identify health beliefs and coping strategies regarding Premenstrual syndrome among health college students at Qassim University .Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive research design was used for carried out this study on Convenience sampling from all available students at the healthy colleges aged 18-25 years old from 2 nd to 4 th levels (239) female students from Medicine , Nursing , Pharmacy Applied medical sciences Medical rehabilitation and Dentistry at Qassim university . The data was collected by using 3 self-administered tools to collect data as follows ; First tool: includes socio-demographic data contained 11 questions ; Second tool: it measures the health beliefs of premenstrual syndrome contained 25 questions ; Third tool is to measures coping strategies for premenstrual syndrome it contained 33 questions.
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