title: Relationship between premenstrual symptoms and dysmenorrhea in Japanese high school students.
abstract: To determine the relationship between premenstrual symptoms and dysmenorrhea among Japanese adolescent girls, a total of 1,431 high school students were assessed. Of them, 11.3% were classified with "moderate to severe premenstrual syndrome (PMS)" and 3.2% with "premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD)." Eighty-five percent of the girls had dysmenorrhea. The rates of prevalence of PMDD and moderate to severe PMS were increased according to the severity of dysmenorrhea (rs = 0.479), showing a correlation between the severity of PMS/PMDD and dysmenorrhea in adolescents.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Aoba, Sendai, Japan.
authors.forename: Mari
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kitamura
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takeda
authors.forename: Shoko
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Koga
authors.forename: Satoru
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nagase
authors.forename: Nobuo
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Yaegashi
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001007:Anxiety / Q000453:epidemiology; D003863:Depression / Q000453:epidemiology; D004412:Dysmenorrhea / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D011293:Premenstrual Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D013334:Students / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult