Reasons women do not seek health care for dysmenorrhea

Chen, Chen X.; Shieh, Carol; Draucker, Claire Burke; Carpenter, Janet S.

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“…Some women believe their symptoms are a normal part of being a woman (Chen, Groves, Miller, & Carpenter, 2018;Chen, Shieh, et al, 2018;Wong, 2011). Others feel that dysmenorrhoea is not worth a costly trip to their healthcare provider (Chen, Groves, et al, 2018;Chen, Shieh, et al, 2018). Some women feel uncomfortable or embarrassed about discussing menstrual pain with their healthcare provider (Chen, Groves, et al, 2018;Chen, Shieh, et al, 2018;Tanaka et al, 2014).…”

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“…Despite the high prevalence of dysmenorrhoea and its negative impacts on women's lives, many women do not seek professional help for dysmenorrhoea (Chen, Shieh, Drauker, & Carpenter, 2018;Tanaka et al, 2014). Some women believe their symptoms are a normal part of being a woman (Chen, Groves, Miller, & Carpenter, 2018;Chen, Shieh, et al, 2018;Wong, 2011). Others feel that dysmenorrhoea is not worth a costly trip to their healthcare provider (Chen, Groves, et al, 2018;Chen, Shieh, et al, 2018).…”

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“…Others feel that dysmenorrhoea is not worth a costly trip to their healthcare provider (Chen, Groves, et al, 2018;Chen, Shieh, et al, 2018). Some women feel uncomfortable or embarrassed about discussing menstrual pain with their healthcare provider (Chen, Groves, et al, 2018;Chen, Shieh, et al, 2018;Tanaka et al, 2014). Therefore, many women turn to other information sources, including the Internet, to identify the cause of their pain and methods to manage it (Chen, Groves, et al, 2018;Chen, Shieh, et al, 2018;Subasinghe, Happo, Jayasinghe, Garland, & Wark, 2016).…”

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Online information on dysmenorrhoea: An evaluation of readability, credibility, quality and usability

Lovett

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Patton

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Journal of Clinical Nursing

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Aims and objectives To evaluate online information on dysmenorrhoea, including readability, credibility, quality and usability. Background Menstrual pain impacts 45%–95% of women of reproductive age globally and is the leading cause of school and work absences among women. Women often seek online information on dysmenorrhoea; however, little is known about the information quality. Design This was a descriptive study to evaluate online information on dysmenorrhoea. Methods We imitated search strategies of the general public. Specifically, we employed the three most popular search engines worldwide—Google, Yahoo and Bing—and used lay search terms, “period pain” and “menstrual cramps.” We screened 60 web pages. Following removal of duplicates and irrelevant web pages, 25 met the eligibility criteria. Two team members independently evaluated the included web pages using standardised tools. Readability was evaluated with the Flesch–Kincaid Reading Ease and Flesch–Kincaid Grade formulas; credibility, quality and usability were evaluated with established tools. We followed the STROBE checklist for reporting this study. Results For readability, the mean Flesch–Kincaid level was 10th grade. For credibility, 8% of web pages referenced scientific literature and 28% stated the author's name and qualifications. For quality, no web page employed user‐driven content production; 8% of web pages referenced evidence‐based guidelines, 32% of web pages had accurate content, and 4% of web pages recommended shared decision‐making. Most web pages were interactive and included nontextual information. Some nontextual information was inaccurate. Conclusion Online information on dysmenorrhoea has generally low readability, mixed credibility and variable quality. Relevance to clinical practice Strategies to improve health information on dysmenorrhoea include avoiding complex terms, incorporating visual aids, presenting evidence‐based information and developing a decision aid to support shared decision‐making. Healthcare providers should be aware of the problematic health information that individuals are exposed to and provide education about how to navigate online health information.

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Online information on dysmenorrhoea: An evaluation of readability, credibility, quality and usability

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“…В одном из исследований были проанализированы причины, по которым женщины с дисменореей пренебрегают визитами к врачу [133]:…”

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Menstrual Pain: A Review of Foreign Literature

Оstrovska¹

2019

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The World Health Organization estimates dysmenorrhea as the most important cause of a chronic pelvic pain. Its prevalence among adolescents and young women ranges from 40 % to 90 %, and varies, depending on age, country of residence and population density of the area. Primary dysmenorrhea is responsible for reducing the quality of life, absenteeism in the workplace or at school, refusing to participate in community and sporting events, changing of pain perception and sleep disturbance. There is evidence of its relationship with an early menarche, a family history, a length of the menstrual cycle, bad habits, poor sleep hygiene, an unbalanced diet, sedentary lifestyle and obesity. Characteristic features of a personality contribute in a certain way, making women prone to neuroticism and pain catastrophizing to be more at risk of developing dysmenorrhea. Irritable bowel syndrome, musculoskeletal pain and interstitial cystitis often accompany dysmenorrhea and respond to its treatment positively. Despite the proven validity of nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs treatment there are resistant forms of menstrual pain, those make a search for alternative therapy relevant.

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“…Juvenile dysmenorrhea (JD) -painful menstruation in girls under 18 in the absence of pelvic pathology is a common and often depleting gynecological suffering, regardless of age or nationality [15,19,25]. Despite the high prevalence, primary dysmenorrhea in girls is often poorly diagnosed and even ignored by medical professionals and the girls themselves and their mothers, who can accept painful menstruation as a normal part of the menstrual cycle [7,18,20].…”

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Role of Col1a1 and G2046t Genes in Uzbeks With Juvenile Dysmenorrhea in the Presence of Criteria for Undifferentiated Connective Tissue Dysplasia

2020

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Clinical and genetic examination of 118 girls was conducted, with signs of connective tissue dysplasia (СTD) -64 and without it -54, the control group consisted of 68 healthy girls with normal menstruation. The basis for the diagnosis of dysmenorrhea was a complaint of painful menstruation. An analysis of the distribution of allelic variants of the COL1A1 G2046T gene showed that in the group of patients with juvenile disease accompanied by СTD significantly higher compared with the control group of practically healthy individuals, only a tendency toward the reliability of alleles was observed, but they did not reach true significance. The study of the association of the COL1A1 G2046T genotype showed a significant increase in the mutant TT genotype in the group of girls with juvenile disease with СTD, compared with practically healthy individuals. Therefore, the single nucleotide variant of COL1A1 G2046T plays a role in the pathogenesis of the development of juvenile disease accompanied by СTD. This is indirectly confirmed by the indicators of oxyproline, an increase in which was significant both in comparison with practically healthy individuals and in comparison with a group of patients with juvenile disease without signs of СTD, suggests that this polymorphism is only one of the polymorphisms involved in the pathogenesis of the studied pathology. Based on the foregoing, we can conclude that the occurrence of the mutant allele of the estrogen receptor gene -alpha (single nucleotide replacement of guanine with adenine in rs2228480) is 1.9 times higher in the group of girls with juvenile dysfunction with СTD than in the group of juvenile dysfunction with СTD (χ2 = 4.515; p = 0.03). A significant difference was also found in the frequency of occurrence of type I collagen gene polymorphism (single nucleotide replacement of guanine with thymine in rs1800012) was found in girls with juvenile disease with СTD only in comparison with a group of healthy individuals (χ2 = 4.71; p = 0.03).

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Reasons women do not seek health care for dysmenorrhea

Cited by 60 publications

References 20 publications

Online information on dysmenorrhoea: An evaluation of readability, credibility, quality and usability

Online information on dysmenorrhoea: An evaluation of readability, credibility, quality and usability

Menstrual Pain: A Review of Foreign Literature

Role of Col1a1 and G2046t Genes in Uzbeks With Juvenile Dysmenorrhea in the Presence of Criteria for Undifferentiated Connective Tissue Dysplasia

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