title: Work-related stress factors and menstrual pain: a nation-wide representative survey.
abstract: While imposing research has been conducted with respect to the biological determinants of painful menstruation, little is known about the psychosocial factors, including work-related stress that might influence menstrual pain. We conducted a study in which we aimed to determine besides the prevalence of dysmenorrhoea whether menstrual pain was associated with job control, co-worker social support, job security and dissatisfaction with the job. Data of 2772 working women aged 18-55 years, participants in the Hungarostudy 2002 nation-wide representative survey was analyzed. Binary logistic regression was used to determine the association between work stress factors and menstrual pain. Altogether 15.5% of women reported to experience menstrual pain that limits their daily activity. Low job control, low co-worker social support and low job security were found to be associated with a higher risk for menstrual pain even after controlling for the effect of age, educational attainment, parity status, smoking, body-mass index and treatment for gynecological problems. Job dissatisfaction was also related to dysmenorrhoea, albeit not significantly. The relationship between work-related psychosocial factors and painful menstruation deserves further investigation in order to determine the possible pathways of this association.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Behavioural Sciences, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary. neckri@net.sote.hu
authors.forename: Krisztina D
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: László
authors.forename: Zsuzsa
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Gyorffy
authors.forename: Szilvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Adám
authors.forename: Csilla
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Csoboth
authors.forename: Mária S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Kopp
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003625:Data Collection; D004412:Dysmenorrhea / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006814:Hungary / Q000453:epidemiology; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008875:Middle Aged; D012042:Registries; D012944:Social Support; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D016526:Workload / Q000523:psychology*; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology*