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title: Can a simple questionnaire help doctors identify women with PMDD or PMS?
description: Yes. The Premenstrual Symptoms Screening Tool (PSST) effectively distinguishes between women with PMDD, women with PMS, and women with minimal symptoms.
url: https://niyora.com/research/papers/premenstrual-symptom-screening-tool-a-useful-tool-for-dsm-5-premenstrual-2014/
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- Can a simple questionnaire help doctors identify women with PMDD or PMS?

Survey study, 2014

# Can a simple questionnaire help doctors identify women with PMDD or PMS?

Yes. The Premenstrual Symptoms Screening Tool (PSST) effectively distinguishes between women with PMDD, women with PMS, and women with minimal symptoms.

 Moderate study design

118 menstruating women aged 18-49 working at a teaching hospital in Turkey

## What they did

118 menstruating women aged 18-49 working at a hospital in Turkey filled out the PSST questionnaire and another general symptom checklist. Researchers grouped them into three categories based on PSST scores: subthreshold (minimal) symptoms, PMDD (severe), and PMS (moderate).

## What they found

15.2% of women (18 out of 118) were identified as having PMDD. 32.2% (38 out of 118) were identified as having PMS. The tool had excellent internal consistency. The three groups showed significantly different symptom patterns. Women with PMDD reported moderate to severe symptoms on the four core PMDD symptoms significantly more often than the other groups.

## What it means for you

This questionnaire tool works well for identifying women who need help for PMDD or moderate to severe PMS versus those with minimal symptoms. In this Turkish hospital population, about half of all women had significant premenstrual symptoms. The limitation is that the tool was tested in one hospital setting, so it may perform differently in other groups.

118

Women in the study

15.2%

Identified as having PMDD

32.2%

Identified as having PMS

## About the study

Original title Premenstrual Symptom Screening Tool: A Useful Tool for DSM-5 Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder Authors Kadir Özdel, Ayşegül Kervancioğlu, İbrahim Taymur et al. Journal The Annals of Clinical and Analytical Medicine Year 2014 Study design Survey study Participants 38 Open access Yes Read the paper [doi.org/10.4328/jcam.2314](https://doi.org/10.4328/jcam.2314)

## Topics

[Premenstrual syndrome (PMS)](https://niyora.com/research/topics/condition-pms/)[Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD)](https://niyora.com/research/topics/condition-pmdd/)[Low mood and depression](https://niyora.com/research/topics/symptom-depression-mood/)

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