Esse trabalho visou avaliar a prevalência, caracterizar sintomas e identificar aspectos individuais e sócio-culturais relacionados à SPM em Adolescentes entre 14 e 18 anos, e suas mães, através de estudo prospectivo. Os protocolos baseados nos critérios de Moss foram preenchidos em entrevistas individuais. Procedeu-se análise descritiva seguida de estudo não pareado. Para variáveis categóricas utilizou-se tabelas de contingência, e como medida de associação o qui-quadrado e o Teste Exato de Fisher. Aplicou-se Análise de Regressão Logística stepwise forward (WALD). Observou-se 69,7% de adolescentes com SPM. O sintoma mais freqüente foi o nervoso (99,4%). Mostraram associação com a SPM, mães com SPM, conotação dada à menstruação e a SPM, influência do grupo e da mídia, e expectativa frente à menarca / This work aimed at to evaluate the prevalence, to characterize symptoms and to identify related individuals and partner-cultural aspects to the PMS in Adolescents between 14 and 18 years old, and her mothers, through prospective study. The protocols based on the Moss's criteria had been filled in individual interviews. Descriptive analysis was preceded from the data. For categorical variable was used contingency tables, and as measured of association to Qui-square and the Fisher's Accurate Test. Analysis of Logistic Regression stepwise forward (WALD) was applied. 69.7% of adolescents with PMS were observed. The symptom most frequent was the sinewy (99,4%). They had shown to association with the PMS, mothers with PMS, connotation given to the menstruation and the PMS, influence of the group and the media, and expectation of the menarche

In many societies there is a stigma surrounding menstruation. It is often perpetuated through representations in advertisements as well as lack of open discussions. This thesis investigates ways that people are presenting menstruation on the social media platform Instagram and concludes that this is a space which allows the normative menstruation discourse to be challenged. Instagram is a widely used app that allows users to interact with others through sharing photos and has the potential to be a space for empowerment and challenging dominant ideologies. Publicly accessible photos were collected from the app using hashtags related to menstruation and menstrual activism, as well as menstrual activist accounts and menstrual product accounts. The results of a qualitative content analysis reveal numerous themes which challenge or reinforce the stigmas: Empowerment, Solidarity, Resistance, Normalizing Periods, Women’s Health, Standard/Normative, Eco-Friendly and Marketing.

Esse trabalho visou avaliar a prevalência, caracterizar sintomas e identificar aspectos individuais e sócio-culturais relacionados à SPM em Adolescentes entre 14 e 18 anos, e suas mães, através de estudo prospectivo. Os protocolos baseados nos critérios de Moss foram preenchidos em entrevistas individuais. Procedeu-se análise descritiva seguida de estudo não pareado. Para variáveis categóricas utilizou-se tabelas de contingência, e como medida de associação o qui-quadrado e o Teste Exato de Fisher. Aplicou-se Análise de Regressão Logística stepwise forward (WALD). Observou-se 69,7% de adolescentes com SPM. O sintoma mais freqüente foi o nervoso (99,4%). Mostraram associação com a SPM, mães com SPM, conotação dada à menstruação e a SPM, influência do grupo e da mídia, e expectativa frente à menarca / This work aimed at to evaluate the prevalence, to characterize symptoms and to identify related individuals and partner-cultural aspects to the PMS in Adolescents between 14 and 18 years old, and her mothers, through prospective study. The protocols based on the Moss's criteria had been filled in individual interviews. Descriptive analysis was preceded from the data. For categorical variable was used contingency tables, and as measured of association to Qui-square and the Fisher's Accurate Test. Analysis of Logistic Regression stepwise forward (WALD) was applied. 69.7% of adolescents with PMS were observed. The symptom most frequent was the sinewy (99,4%). They had shown to association with the PMS, mothers with PMS, connotation given to the menstruation and the PMS, influence of the group and the media, and expectation of the menarche

O impacto da flutuação dos hormônios esteróides sobre o curso do Transtorno Afetivo Bipolar durante a vida reprodutiva das mulheres é pouco estudado. Encontramos ainda muitas lacunas no conhecimento quanto a sua apresentação clínica e as suas implicações na evolução do Transtorno Afetivo Bipolar, especialmente sua associação com a ciclagem rápida e o seu valor preditivo para recorrência. Métodos: Mulheres com Transtorno Afetivo Bipolar (tipos I, II ou sem outra especificação) participantes do Systematic Treatment Enhancement Program for Bipolar Disorder, com idade entre 16 e 40 anos, foram divididas em dois grupos: com e sem relato de exacerbação pré-menstrual do Transtorno Afetivo Bipolar na avaliação inicial do estudo. Estes grupos foram comparados em relação às características clínicas do Transtorno Afetivo Bipolar, de vida reprodutiva e tratamento na entrada do estudo. Longitudinalmente, foi comparado o tempo de recorrência entre as pacientes que iniciaram o estudo eutímicas utilizando análise de sobrevivência Kaplan Meier e a regressão de Cox. O número de episódios entre as pacientes que foram seguidas por um período de um ano também foi comparado. Resultados: Das 706 mulheres que completaram o questionário, 490 (69,4%) relataram exacerbação pré-menstrual. Na entrada do estudo, quando comparadas ao grupo sem exacerbação pré-menstrual, as mulheres com exacerbação pré-menstrual encontravam-se mais deprimidas, apresentavam mais comorbidades psiquiátricas, sintomas do humor com uso de contraceptivos hormonais, ciclos menstruais irregulares, e estavam recebendo menos tratamento farmacológico. Mulheres com exacerbação pré-menstrual também relataram mais episódios de humor durante o ano anterior e eram mais susceptíveis de apresentar ciclagem rápida neste mesmo período. Na avaliação prospectiva, entre as mulheres que iniciaram o estudo eutímicas (exacerbação pré-menstrual n = 66, sem exacerbação pré-menstrual n = 63), o grupo com exacerbação pré-menstrual teve um tempo de recaída mais rápido ao se incluir estados subsindrômicos associados a recaídas em mania, depressão ou estado misto. O tempo médio de recidiva de 50% da amostra foi de 4,5 meses para as mulheres com a exacerbação pré-menstrual, em comparação com 8,5 meses para as do grupo sem exacerbação pré-menstrual (p = 0,02). A exacerbação prémenstrual também foi um fator significativamente associado a maior gravidade dos sintomas depressivos e de elevação do humor entre as mulheres com um ano de seguimento. Conclusões: As mulheres com Transtorno Afetivo Bipolar que relataram exacerbação pré-menstrual apresentaram uma maior comorbidade psiquiátrica, maior número de episódios do humor no ano anterior e ciclagem rápida. A avaliação prospectiva mostrou uma taxa de recorrência maior, mais estados subsindrômicos e maior número de episódios, mas não ciclagem rápida, nas mulheres do grupo exacerbação pré-menstrual. Nossos resultados sugerem que a exacerbação pré-menstrual pode ser considerada um marcador clínico preditor de um fenótipo clínico mais complexo e associado a uma pior evolução da doença em mulheres em idade reprodutiva com Transtorno Afetivo Bipolar. / The impact of hormonal fluctuation during the menstrual cycle on the course of bipolar disorder in women is poorly studied. We also found many gaps in knowledge about its clinical presentation and its implications for the evolution of Bipolar Disorder, especially the association with rapid cycling and its predictive value for recurrence. Methods: Women with Bipolar Disorder (types I, II or Not Otherwise Specificated ) participants Systematic Treatment Enhancement Program for Bipolar Disorder, aged between 16 and 40, were divided into two groups: with and without reports of Premenstrual Exacerbation of Bipolar Disorder in the baseline assessment. These groups were compared to clinical features of BD, reproductive life and treatment at study entry. The time difference of recurrence between groups who were euthymic at the baseline assessment were done with survival analysis Kaplan Meier\'s survival curve and Cox regression models. The number of episodes between the patients who were followed for a period of one year was also compared. Results: Of 706 women who completed the questionnaire, 490 (69.4%) reported premenstrual exacerbation. At study entry, compared to those without premenstrual exacerbation, women with premenstrual exacerbation were more depressed, had more psychiatric comorbidities, mood symptoms with the use of hormonal contraceptives, irregular menstrual cycles, and were receiving less drug treatment. Women with premenstrual exacerbation also reported more mood episodes during the previous year and were more likely to state rapid cycling in the same period. In a prospective evaluation among women who started the study in euthymic mood state (premenstrual exacerbation n = 66, without premenstrual exacerbation n = 63), the premenstrual exacerbation group had a smaller time to relapse when associated subsyndromal mood states to relapse in mania, depression or mixed state. The median time to relapse of 50% of the sample was 4.5 months for women with premenstrual exacerbation, compared with 8.5 months for the group without premenstrual exacerbation (p = 0,02). The premenstrual exacerbation was also a significantly positive factor for a greater severity of depressive symptoms and elevation of mood among women with one year of follow-up. Conclusions: Women with Bipolar Disorder who reported premenstrual exacerbation had a higher psychiatric comorbidity, greater number of episodes of mood in the previous year and rapid cycling. Prospective evaluation showed a higher rate of recurrence, more states and more subsyndromal episodes, but not rapid cycling among women in the premenstrual exacerbation. Our results suggest that premenstrual exacerbation can be considered a clinical marker predictor of a worse clinical phenotype and associated with a worst disease progression in women of reproductive with bipolar affective disorder

During recent years the stigmatised phenomenon of menstruation has received increased attention, revealing various challenges faced by menstruating women and girls. The prevalence of these have shown to be particularly profound in low- and middle-income countries. Despite an enhanced understanding of how menstruators may be affected by having their periods the focus within the growing body of literature on Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) remains narrow, often focusing solely on the practical aspects of MHM, whilst failing to acknowledge the social dimensions of menstruating. Women who work have been notably overlooked within the existing research, which almost exclusively has targeted schoolgirls. This study aims to widen the understanding of MHM, entailing both social and practical aspects. It also seeks to shed light on the experiences of working women, as a previously neglected group. To investigate how menstruation may affect women within their working environment, a field study with respondent interviews was conducted in Accra, Ghana. The narratives of the respondents, consisting of women working within the informal sector at markets, disclosed challenges that relate both to the social and practical aspects of MHM. The results point to the continued need for including working women in the research on MHM. It also demonstrates how practical and social aspects overlap and thus needs to be linked to gain a full understanding of menstruation and how it affects the menstruator.

Menstrual health management can be a difficulty for menstruating women and girls, especially in low- and middle-income countries or other areas of poverty. Menstruation being characterized by stigmatisation, myths and taboo makes it especially troublesome, preventing women and girls to handle their menstruation safely and with dignity. Male attitudes have been argued to play an important role in perpetuating these stigmas and taboos, yet little is known about them. This study sets out to investigate male menstrual knowledge and attitudes, the role of religion in shaping menstrual attitudes and the potential consequences for menstruating women and girls. Qualitative data from group interviews with 24 boys aged 15-19 in a Senior High School in Accra, Ghana is used as basis for analysis. The results are organised along three themes, reflecting the three sub-research questions guiding the study. Findings demonstrate how schoolboys have an elemental understanding of the physiological process of menstruation yet demonstrate a deep understanding of cultural restrictions and the way menstruation may be experienced. Attitudes contain both positive and negative elements, including menstruation as normal and natural on the one hand, and the menstruating girl as unclean and impure on the other. Religion seem to play in important role in perpetuating negative menstrual attitudes, reinforcing the idea of menstruation as impure and unclean. Potential consequences of these attitudes risk menstruation continuing being considered as unclean and impure in addition to be neglected as a “girl’s matter”. However, respondents also identified menstrual difficulties which may foster supportive involvement in menstruation. The findings suggest the importance of continuing to address the surrounding communities of menstruating women and girls, including within and outside of educational and religious institutions.

Thesis (M.A.)--Denver Conservative Baptist Seminary, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 125-130).

Bakgrund: PMDS är en relativt okänd diagnos. Det är en progression av Premenstruellt syndrom (PMS) men allvarligare och är ibland invalidiserande för den som lider utav det. Prevalensen av PMDS är cirka fem procent av alla fertila kvinnor. Syfte: Syftet var att undersöka hur kvinnor med diagnosen PMDS upplevde hur det är att leva med diagnosen, vilken behandling de provat samt bemötandet som de fått i kontakt med vården. Metod: För att kunna besvara syftet så valdes en kvalitativ studie i form av intervjuer. Detta för att få en utökad förståelse kring PMDS och vad sjukdomen innebär. Intervjuerna var semistrukturerade och sju kvinnor inkluderades i studien. Inklusionskriterierna för denna studie var kvinnor med diagnosen PMDS som har varit i kontakt med sjukvården och blivit diagnostiserade med sjukdomen. Intervjuerna analyserades med hjälp av innehållsanalys enligt Graneheim och Lundman (2004). Resultat: PMDS tycks fortfarande vara en relativt okänd diagnos inom sjukvården och en del av informanterna var inte nöjda med vården de mottagit medan andra haft tur och hittat rätt väg på en gång. Det är en svår diagnos att leva med som inkräktar på såväl vardagsliv som arbetsliv och alla mänskliga relationer. Informanterna anser att en utökad förståelse och hjälp från vården skulle underlätta deras leverne. Slutsats: Mer kunskap krävs inom både vården och för samhället i stort då detta är en allvarlig diagnos som behöver upptäckas i tid så dessa kvinnor kan få rätt hjälp. Det är livsavgörande att kvinnor med diagnosen PMDS får de verktyg de behöver för att kunna leva ett fullvärdigt liv. / Background: PMDD is a relatively unknown diagnosis. There is a progression of Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS), but serious and sometimes debilitating for the sufferer out of it. The prevalence of PMDD is about five percent of all women of childbearing potential. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine how women diagnosed with PMDD experienced how it is to live with the diagnosis, the treatment they have tried, and the response they got in contact with health services. Method: A qualitative survey based on interviews was made in order to comprehend the diagnosis PMDS and its symptoms. Seven women participated in semi-structured interviews. The terms and conditions in this survey included women diagnosed with PMDS by and in contact with the health care system. The interviews were analyzed in accordance to Graneheim and Lundman’s content analysis. Results: The result indicated that PMDS is a relatively unknown condition within the health care system. Some of the informants were not pleased with the treatment given. Others received efficient treatment straight away. PMDS is burdensome to live with and it affects working life as well as social relations in common life. Conclusion: Acquaintance, both within the health care system and the society as a whole, is crucial for women diagnosed with PMDS. PMDS is a serious diagnosis which has to be discovered early in order to give these women efficient treatment. It is essential that women diagnosed with PMDS get efficient tools to handle their diagnosis in order to live vital lives.

It is argued in this thesis that the stigmatization of menstruation and the atypical product features of the menstrual cup constitute a unique marketing challenge for vendors of the menstrual cup. The purpose of this study is therefore to investigate these issues and the ways in which Scandinavian vendors approach them. Further, the possible effects of this approach on the rate of adoption of the menstrual cup are analyzed. In order to do so, interviews with four Scandinavian vendors of the menstrual cup were conducted. The main findings are that the stigmatization of menstruation is the most influential factor in the marketing of the menstrual cup as it hinders the spreading of knowledge about menstruation and the menstrual cup. It is found that the vendors take an educational approach in order to spread information, which in turn enables learning. Information is spread primarily through word-of-mouth.

Thesis (M.A.)--Denver Conservative Baptist Seminary, 1994. / This is an electronic reproduction of TREN, #090-0059. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 125-130).