ArticleJournal of advanced nursing2020
"Tomorrow, I'll Be Fine": Impacts and coping mechanisms in adolescents and young adults with primary dysmenorrhoea.
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- Exploring the role of negative expectations and emotions in primary dysmenorrhea: insights from a case-control study.BMC women's health · 2025Article
- Using an Interpretive Phenomenological Approach to Understand the Menstrual Experience of Young Adults.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2025Article
- Navigating menstrual stigma and norms: a qualitative study on young people's menstrual experiences and strategies for improving menstrual health.BMC public health · 2024Article
- A meta-ethnography of how children and young people with chronic non-cancer pain and their families experience and understand their condition, pain services, and treatments.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Review
- "It's Just Another Unfortunate Part of Being Female": A Qualitative Study on Dysmenorrhea Severity and Quality of Life.Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings · 2023Article
- "My body…tends to betray me sometimes": a Qualitative Analysis of Affective and Perceptual Body Image in Individuals Living with Endometriosis.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2023Article
- Reasons for Not Seeking Healthcare Among Students with Dysmenorrhea: A Qualitative Study.International journal of women's health · 2023Article
- Disease Burden of Dysmenorrhea: Impact on Life Course Potential.International journal of women's health · 2023Review
- The Establishment of a Mouse Model of Recurrent Primary Dysmenorrhea.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
- Seeking help for menstrual pain during adolescence: A mixed-methods retrospective survey of treatment experiences and preferences.Women's health (London, England)Article
- Missing and dismissing the impact of periods. Outcomes of focus groups of teens with period concerns.Women's health (London, England)Article
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Abstract
aimsTo understand the experiences of adolescents and young adults with primary dysmenorrhoea through the lens of structured frameworks extant in contemporary pain literature.
designDescriptive qualitative study.
methodsThirty-nine adolescents and young adults (ages 16-24 years) with primary dysmenorrhoea participated in semi-structured in-person interviews. Transcripts of the interviews were analysed using deductive thematic analysis from November 2018 to April 2019.
resultsTwo overarching themes, each with subthemes, were identified. The first theme, primary dysmenorrhoea impacts the whole person, contained the following subthemes: biological, social, and psychological. The second theme, coping mechanisms of women with primary dysmenorrhoea, contained the following subthemes: primary, secondary, and passive coping.
conclusionWomen experience several primary dysmenorrhoea-related impacts on their biological, social, and psychological functioning. Women employ a variety of coping mechanisms to manage their primary dysmenorrhoea pain. IMPACT: This study emphasizes the significant effects of primary dysmenorrhoea on nearly every aspect of women's lives and contributes to an understanding of the ways women cope with this pain. The findings of this study underscore the need for continued consideration of primary dysmenorrhoea as a debilitating pain process as well as the need for additional interventions to help women manage this condition.
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