Prevalence, Knowledge, And Attitude Towards Premenstrual Disorder Among Unimas Undergraduate Female Medical Students

• Main Author: Nurhasbuna Ni’mah, Mohd Harun
• Format: Final Year Project Report
• Language: English; English
• Published: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2023
• Subjects: H Social Sciences (General)
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/43329/1/NURHASBUNA%20%2824pgs%29.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/43329/2/NURHASBUNA%20%28Fulltext%29.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/43329/
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

Introduction: Prevalence, knowledge, and attitude of Premenstrual Disorder are significant for women, particularly as the symptoms can negatively impacting mental health and relationship with others thus interfering quality of life. Objectives: This study aims to identify the prevalence, to assess the level of knowledge and attitude towards Premenstrual Disorder among UNIMAS undergraduate female medical students. Methodology: A quantitative cross-sectional study was conducted at Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Malaysia Sarawak. A total of 189 participants were selected using simple random sampling. A structured item questionnaire was developed, pre-tested and it was used for data collection. SPSS version 26.0 was used to enter and analyze the data of respondents. Descriptive statistics were used to describe the prevalence, knowledge, and attitude towards Premenstrual Disorder among UNIMAS undergraduate female medical students. Chi-square test was used to determine the association between prevalence, knowledge, and attitude of Premenstrual Disorder among UNIMAS undergraduate female medical students. Results: This finding revealed high prevalence of Premenstrual Disorder (50.2%) despite low level of knowledge (51.3%) and low level of attitude (51.3%) towards Premenstrual Disorder. among UNIMAS undergraduate female medical students. There was significant association between prevalence of Premenstrual Disorder and regularity of menstruation cycle Conclusion: Therefore, the present study showed that there is still lack of knowledge and attitude towards Premenstrual Disorder despite the high prevalence.