How much do nursing students know about PMS and how well do they cope with it?

Premenstrual syndrome is a group of changes that can affect you on many levels. They can be physical, emotional, or behavioral. The changes come 1-2 weeks before your period. Once your period starts or soon after it starts, they'll go away. Objectives: to assess the knowledge regarding premenstrual syndrome and coping behaviour among nursing students, to find out the association between the knowledge regarding premenstrual syndrome and coping behaviour with their selected socio-demographic variables, to determine the co-relationship between the knowledge regarding premenstrual syndrome among nursing students,. Methodology: A descriptive study was conducted in 2021 in selected Nursing College of District Solan (H. P) sample of 100 nursing students were selected by using convenient sampling technique. Result: The findings show the knowledge score was 15.12?4.086 and respectively coping behaviour score shows that 13.05?1.940. There was significant association between the knowledge regarding premenstrual syndrome with their selected socio-demographic variables (age in year, academic status of the student) and for the coping behaviour there is significant association between the coping behaviour regarding premenstrual syndrome with their selected socio-demographic variable (Age in menarche, area of resident). There was a significant co relationship between the knowledge regarding premenstrual syndrome and coping behaviour among the nursing students (correlation 0.315, t value 0.197 and p value p<0.001). Conclusion: The present study was concluded that the majority of nursing students had moderate adequate knowledge and good coping behaviour regarding premenstrual syndrome.

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