Original Research Article
Year: 2022 | Month: July | Volume: 12 | Issue: 7 | Pages: 25-34
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijhsr.20220703
Prevalence of Primary Dysmenorrhea and Menstruation Related Issues Among Young Female Students with Hearing Impairment: An Institutional Based Cross Sectional Study
Neelam K Rathod1, Jagdish T Gohil2
1Ph.D Scholar, Faculty of Physiotherapy, Parul University, Vadodara, Gujarat, India.
2M.D, (GYNEC) FICOG, Professor and Head Department of Obst. & Gynec, PIMSR,
Parul University, Vadodara, Gujarat, India.
Corresponding Author: Neelam K Rathod
ABSTRACT
Background: Menarche which is a most important event during female puberty. It is a physiological process in all girls and problems related menstruation is very important to discuss with them. In which Dysmenorrhea is a one of them the most common gynecological complain among adolescent girls. But it is a difficult phase especially for adolescents with disability and their families and has received very limited attention.
Objectives: If able women find menstruation is a challenge, then what about those who are deaf and mute. This study was conducted to assess severity of pain during menstruation and assess any menstrual related physiological and psychological symptoms among deaf and mute girls.
Materials & Methodology: A cross sectional school-based study was conducted among 66 deaf and mute girls (11-19) from various schools of deaf and mute at Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar district.
Result: The dysmenorrhea was reported in 63 (95.5%) out of 66 deaf and mute girls. Regarding the duration of pain, almost half of the girls (n=30) have informed pain duration for 2-3 day (45.4%), 34.8% reported <2 days, followed with 15.2%reported pain for >3 days, 4.5% girls have reported no pain during or before menstruation. Most of the girls (87.9%) reported location of pain as lower abdomen. Out of 66 among 57 girls (86.3%) reported grade 1(mild pain) according to VMSS grading for severity of dysmenorrhea.
Conclusion: Menstruation is a normal physiological phenomenon happens in all normal female and female with any kind of disability. The present study concluded that the prevalence of dysmenorrhea among deaf and mute girls is consistently high. The findings also show that majority of them have normal menstrual pattern like any other girl.
Key words: Deaf and Mute Adolescent Girl, Menstruation, Dysmenorrhea, Lower Abdomen Pain.