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http://dx.doi.org/10.15207/JKCS.2021.12.3.409

Dysmenorrhea in High School Girls and Its influencing Factors  

Kim, Song-Soon (Department of Nursing, Dongwon Institute of Science and Technology)
Kim, Hyang-Soo (Department of Nursing, Jungwon University)
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Journal of the Korea Convergence Society / v.12, no.3, 2021 , pp. 409-420 More about this Journal
Abstract
The study is a descriptive research to determine high school girls' the status of dysmenorrhea and to look into influencing factors about how relationships between variables: sleep disturbance, stress, anxiety, dietary habit have an effect on dysmenorrhea. Our collected data consisted of 160 high school girls living in B metropolitan city. The study period lasted four weeks, going from Oct 12 to Nov 6, 2020. The resulting data was analyzed with SPSS/WIN 21.0 version to analyze. As a result of this study, The correlated factors of dysmenorrhea included sleep disturbance(r=.531, p<.001), stress(r=.349, p<.001), anxiety(r=.300, p=.003) and dietary habit(r=-.205, p=.041). The prevalent factors influencing dysmenorrhea are sleep disturbance, menstrual periods, menstrual cycles, and anxiety. Therefore, it will be needed to improve the quality of sleep, reduce anxiety, try to regulate menstrual periods and menstrual cycle in order to relieve high school girls' dysmenorrhea.
Keywords
Sleep Disturbance; Stress; Anxiety; Dietary Habit; Dysmenorrhea; High School Girls;
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