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Breaking Myths and Improving Awareness: Insights from a Survey on Menstrual Pain and Health
- 1 The High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China, Beijing, China
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Abstract
Menstrual pain or dysmenorrhea is a long-term women’s health problem with a high prevalence globally. However, this prevalence and the urgent demands of women to solve dysmenorrhea have always been overlooked, and research intensity in dysmenorrhea or menstruation is limited. Our research used an online survey to collect responses from 357 female participants on their basic menstruation condition, life habits, dysmenorrhea condition, and the ways participants use to relieve dysmenorrhea in detail. By analyzing the data, we found several aspects that correlate with dysmenorrhea or its severity, including age at first menstruation, sleep duration, specific symptoms when suffering from dysmenorrhea, the frequency of dysmenorrhea, and the ways used to manage it. The results also clarify that aspects such as the habits of drinking cold water or staying up late, which are long-term misunderstandings by the public, do not correlate with dysmenorrhea. This can potentially help improve the understanding of dysmenorrhea. The survey additionally collected information on participants’ hospital visits for dysmenorrhea, the medicines used to control it, and their attitudes toward new drugs or ways to manage it. This shows the need to persistently strengthen education and put more effort into enhancing the attention and understanding of menstrual health in both the scientific research field and the public, gradually solving the problem of dysmenorrhea.
Keywords
dysmenorrhea, women’s health, awareness.
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Zhang,R. (2024). Breaking Myths and Improving Awareness: Insights from a Survey on Menstrual Pain and Health. Theoretical and Natural Science,61,163-172.
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