Survey study, 2019
What factors affect PMS severity in teenage girls?
Sleep patterns, stress, attitudes about menstruation, and limiting exposure to chemicals all affected PMS severity. Together these factors explained 37% of the differences in PMS severity.
What they did
Researchers surveyed 192 middle school girls in Korea about their sleep patterns, stress levels, attitudes toward menstruation, and behaviors that reduce chemical exposure, then looked at how these factors related to PMS severity.
What they found
79.2% of girls had intermediate sleep patterns. Menstrual pain severity, use of pain medications, family history of PMS, overall stress, and behaviors reducing chemical exposure all significantly affected PMS severity. These five factors together explained 37% of PMS severity differences.
What it means for you
Stress, sleep, and chemical exposure may contribute to PMS in teenagers, but many other unknown factors also matter since only 37% of PMS severity was explained. This was a convenience sample of Korean middle school students, so results may not apply to all teenagers or adult women.
79.2
intermediate sleep pattern
37
variation in PMS severity explained
192
girls studied
About the study
- Original title
- Effects of Sleep Pattern, Stress, Menstrual Attitude, and Behavior That Reduces Exposure to Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals on Premenstrual Syndrome in Adolescents
- Authors
- Kim HJ, Choi SY, Min H
- Journal
- Korean journal of women health nursing
- Year
- 2019
- Study design
- Survey study
- Participants
- 200
- What was tested
- None
- Open access
- Yes
- Read the paper
- doi.org/10.4069/kjwhn.2019.25.4.423
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