An Exploratory Study to Identify the Perceived Stress and Coping Abilities of Primary Dysmenorrhea among Adolescent Girls in Nandhanar Girls Higher Secondary School, Chidambaram

Primary dysmenorrhoea, which affects from 43 to 91 of adolescent girls, is defined as painful uterine cramps that precede and accompany menses. Paediatricians and gynaecologists should thus be more actively involved in the diagnosis of adolescent primary dysmenorrhoea. The present study aimed to assess the stress and coping among adolescent girls during menstrual period. Descriptive research design was used, convenience sampling technique used. Results showed that adolescents girls had 7 inadequate coping, 76 moderate coping, 17 adequate coping during their menstruation and had 4 mild stress, 17 moderate stress, 79 severe stress during their menstruation, there was no significant association between the coping of the subjects and the selected demographic variables. Thus the selected hypothesis H1 was rejected. Dr. Jeyalakshmi. S | Mrs. Kalaiyarasi. D | Mrs. Bharathi. S "An Exploratory Study to Identify the Perceived Stress and Coping Abilities of Primary Dysmenorrhea among Adolescent Girls in Nandhanar Girls Higher Secondary School, Chidambaram" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-3 , April 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd21709.pdf