Complementary Therapies That Are Used For The Relief Of Dysmenorrhea Among Zagazig Technical Health Institute Students

Nour, Sanaa Ali; Gonied, Amina S.; Ali, Manal A.; Ali, Nagah F.

doi:10.21608/tsnj.2011.74439

Complementary Therapies That Are Used For The Relief Of Dysmenorrhea Among Zagazig Technical Health Institute Students

Authors

¹ Professor of Obstetric & Gynecological Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Zagazig University

² Assistant Professor of Obstetric & Gynecological Nursing Faculty of Nursing, Zagazig University

³ Manal A. Ali Assistant Prof. of Rheumatology & Rehabilitation Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University

⁴ , Assistant lecturer of Obstetric. & Gynecological Nursing Faculty of Nursing, Zagazig University

10.21608/tsnj.2011.74439

Abstract

The aim of this study was conducted to evaluate the impact of complementary therapies on relieving dysmenorrhea among students at Zagazig Technical Health Institute. The subjects of this study included all female students (721) Tools used to collect data: Visual analogue scale, Pre and post evaluation sheet of students’ knowledge and a follow up sheet. A self – learning booklet was designed by the researcher and distributed as a guide to students for complementary therapies. The main Results showed that the prevalence rate of dysmenorrhea was 71.0% among students, and that there were statistical significant improvements in most characteristics of menstruation as well as physical &psychological symptoms associated to dysmenorrhea, pain degree, pain site, daily activities, duration of pain, days of absenteeism , amount of menstrual blood flow and type of blood loss in all three groups .TENS group achieved the most noticeable improvement followed by exercise and acupressure .Based on the results of this study this study complementary therapies be more widely used and recommended by health care providers.
Keywords: Primary