In this cross-sectional study, birth perceptions of midwifery students and their relationship with premenstural syndrome were examined.
The study was carried out with 214 midwifery students of Fırat University Faculty of Health Sciences in April 2021. The data were collected using the Personal Information Form prepared by the researcher, the Traumatic Birth Perception Scale (TCPS) and the Premenstrual Syndrome Scale (PMS). Analysis of the data used number, percentage, mean, chi-square test and Pearson correlation analysis in SPSS 22.0 program.
It was determined that 77.1% of the students had a medium and above traumatic birth perception, 66.4% of them experienced premenstural symptoms. The total mean score of the students from the PMS scale was determined to be 127,27±42,15, and the average TCPS score to 70,64±23,56. It was determined that the relationship between students' PMS scale total score scores and TCPS total score scores was low, positive and significant ( r (214)=0,14, p