BACKGROUND During their reproductive years about 10% of women experience some kind of symptoms before menstruation (PMS) in a degree that affects their quality of life (QOL). Acupuncture and herbal medicine has been a recent favorable therapeutic approach. Thus we aimed to review the effects of acupuncture and herbal medicine in the past decade as a preceding research in order to further invest...

Premenstrual Syndrome: A Study of Change in Cyclicity, Severity and Sexuality Ulla-Britt Ekholm Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Physiology University of Umeå, Sweden 82 women seeking help for the Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) were successively recruited into a research project on PMS. All of them performed daily self-ratings during one menstrual cycle and 54 of them during two cycles....

a number of studies have examined the role of aerobic exercise and evidence suggests this may be an effective therapy for premenstrual syndrome (pms). the aim of this study was to assess the pms symptoms between swimmer and non-swimmer female students. two hundred eighty subjects were studied. one hundred forty subjects were swimmers, while 140 were normal sedentary controls. duration of swimmi...

Depression is very common in reproductive women particularly with premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), which is a severe form of premenstrual syndrome (PMS). Beta-arrestins were previously implicated in the pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment for mood disorders. This study examined whether a measurement for beta-arrestin1 levels in peripheral blood mononuclear leukocytes (PBMC), could a...

This study presents the nutrient data collected from women who were being screened for premenstrual syndrome (PMS) for entry into an intervention study. Screening was by the Steiner self-rated questionnaire. One hundred and forty-four overweight women completed the screening process and eighty-eight met the criteria for PMS. All women kept 4 d diet diaries pre- and postmenstrually over two mens...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) symptoms, the frequency and severity of the symptoms, and their association with sociodemographic variables in fertile women between the ages of 15 and 49 years. METHOD The study included 541 women living in the area of the 7th Primary Health Care Center of Manisa, Turkey. Face-to-face interviews ...

BACKGROUND Globally 3 to 8% of reproductive age women are suffering from premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD). Several mental and reproductive health-related factors cause low academic achievement during university education. However, limited data exist in Ethiopia. The aim of the study was to investigate mental and reproductive health correlates of academic performance. METHODS Institution...

Outcomes assessed in the review The presence or severity of PMS, evaluated through the use of daily prospective self-administered questionnaires (e.g. Moos Menstrual Distress Questionnaire, Calendar of Premenstrual Experiences, and the Premenstrual Assessment Form), daily visual analogue scales, global assignment after each cycle, or one-time assessment. Interventions were recorded as having po...