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Dysmenorrhea in adolescents and young adults: a review in different country.
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Arcispedale Sant'Anna
Published InPubMed
Year2016
Citations138
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Dysmenorrhea is still an important public health problem which may have a negative impact on female health, social relationships, school or work activities and psychological status. METHODS: The aim of this review is a better understanding of the epidemiology of dysmenorrhoea and its effect on public health. Published studies in English providing relevant information on dysmenorrhea were identified by searching PubMed, Embase and Google; restricting the population to adolescents and young adult women and the year of publishing from 2010 to August 2015, based on the keywords 'dysmenorrhea', 'adolescents' and 'epidemiology'. In addition, the reference lists of the selected articles were examined. RESULTS: We found 50 studies that met our inclusion criteria. The majority were cross-sectional studies on 41,140…
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Fields & Keywords
Health SciencesMedicinePublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthMenstrual Health and DisordersMaternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and PostpartumTherapeutic Uses of Natural ElementsFamily medicinePediatricsDemographyGerontologyEnvironmental healthNursingOpticsSocial psychologyPathologyInternal medicine