ArticleWomen's health reports (New Rochelle, N.Y.)2022
Heavy Menstrual Bleeding-Visual Analog Scale, an Easy-to-Use Tool for Excessive Menstrual Blood Loss That Interferes with Quality-of-Life Screening in Clinical Practice.
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- Effects of chamomile and -theanine beverage on menstrual pain, menstrual symptoms, mood, and sleep quality in young women experiencing primary dysmenorrhea: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study.Journal of food and drug analysis · 2025Trial
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- Usefulness of the Heavy Menstrual Bleeding Diagnostic Tools SAMANTA Questionnaire and Heavy Menstrual Bleeding-Visual Analog Scale Tool for Iron Deficiency Screening: An Exploratory Analysis from the COLIBRI Study.Women's health reports (New Rochelle, N.Y.) · 2025Article
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- Linguistic Validation of a British-English Version of the SAMANTA Questionnaire and HMB-VAS Tool: A Step Toward Improved Diagnosis of Heavy Menstrual Bleeding.Women's health reports (New Rochelle, N.Y.) · 2024Article
- Association between Patients' Self-Judgement, Coagulated Menstrual Blood, and Menorrhagia: Results from a Questionnaire Survey and Blood Test Analysis.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
- Development of a brief menstrual quality of life measure for women with heavy menstrual bleeding.BMC women's health · 2023Article
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Abstract
Background: Heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB) is defined as excessive menstrual blood loss that interferes with quality of life (QoL). The methods for assessing HMB are not suited for clinical practice. We analyzed the validity of a combined visual analog scale (VAS) tool assessing the intensity of menstrual bleeding (VASInt) and its impact on activities of daily living (VASImp) to identify women with HMB. Materials and Methods: Analysis conducted in the data set used to validate the Spanish HMB screening tool SAMANTA questionnaire. A logistic regression analysis was used to construct the model. Reference standard was the pictorial blood loss assessment chart (PBAC). The performance of the HMB-VAS and the SAMANTA questionnaire was compared. Correlation with SAMANTA questionnaire, PBAC, and other QoL measurements was assessed. Results: The resulting function (HMB-VAS score = 10.86 × VASInt score +2.48 × VASImp score) showed a slightly lower accuracy versus the SAMANTA questionnaire (86.8% vs. 87.9%) but a similar area under the curve: 0.9396 versus 0.943, respectively ( Conclusion: The HMB-VAS shows good performance for HMB screening, providing an easy-to-use alternative to other psychometric tools.
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