BACKGROUND Menstrual morbidity plays a significant role in adolescent females' lives. There are no studies to date reporting such data from menstrual health education programs in schools. AIMS The aim of our study was to report results from an audit of a menstrual health and endometriosis education program in secondary schools and observe age patterns of young women presenting for menstrual m...

conclusions our results show that the self-management angina plan was effective in improving perception of qol and reducing anxiety. further studies with a larger sample size and a longer follow-up period are recommended to better understand the effectiveness of this plan. background coronary artery diseases are the most frequent cause of mortality in industrialized countries as well as iran. c...

objectives this study aimed to examine the effect of a hospital-based educational program based on the constructs of the health belief model (hbm) on self-care behaviors of patients with hf. methods this controlled quasi-experimental study consisted of 84 patients with hf (42 patients in an intervention group and 42 in a control group) who were admitted to two large, specialized, referral hospi...

PURPOSE This study aimed to investigate the regional spontaneous brain activity changes in primary dysmenorrhea (PD) patients in different phases of the menstrual cycle by regional homogeneity (ReHo) analysis. PATIENTS AND METHODS Thirty-three PD patients and 32 healthy controls (HCs) separately received resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging during menstrual phase and follicular...

This study examines the comparability between the last menstrual period-based and clinically estimated gestational age as collected on certificates of live birth. It explores whether sociodemographic or delivery characteristics influence their agreement and contrasts health status and health care utilization indicators, such as preterm, small for gestational age, and adequacy of prenatal care p...

Menstruation is a natural process that happens to all women. However, today's era of modernization shows lot confusion among women about the practice personal hygiene management during menstruation. The problems occur involve hygiene,care female genitals and use products related menstrual blood management.Therefore, this writing carried out identify practices menstruation are organized in Islam...

The present study investigates: (i) differences in menstrual characteristics of athlete and non-athlete adolescents; (ii) relationship between menstrual characteristics, anthropometric variables, athletic status and socioeconomic status. The present study was conducted among 159 unmarried adolescents (80 non-athletes and 79 athletes) of age 15 to 19 years. The study participants belong to Benga...

Substantive evidence indicates that there are sex differences in the reinforcing effects of drugs, and gonadal steroid hormones, such as estrogen and progesterone, likely contribute to these differences. Among females, subjective effects of drugs differ as a function of menstrual cycle phase. The purpose of the present study was to compare oral self-administration of phencyclidine (PCP) in fema...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this article is to compare clinical characteristics of menstrual and non-menstrual attacks of migraine without aura (MO), prospectively recorded in a headache diary, by women with and without a diagnosis of menstrual migraine without aura (MM) according to the International Classification of Headache Disorders (ICHD). MATERIAL AND METHODS A total of 237 women from t...

background and purpose: diabetes is the most common metabolic disorder which is caused by defects in insulin secretion, insulin action, or both .the most important factor in managing diabetes is self-care. since diabetes self-care behaviors are multifactorial and these factors may directly or indirectly affect self-care, it is possible through the application of path analysis to estimate the di...