Prevalencia de dismenorrea en las estudiantes de 13-19 años y su relación con el estado nutrional. "Colegio Miguel Merchán Ochoa". Cuenca-Ecuador. 2014

Abstract

As dysmenorrhea is a clinical chart of adolescent women, it becomes essential to obtain percentages of our own population. The present study was done to determine the prevalence of dysmenorrhea in our population and its relation with nutritional status.

Objective: to identify the degree of dysmenorrhea and whether there is a relationship with Body Mass Index (BMI), truancy and the general disease condition in the students of 13 - 19 years of the "Miguel Merchan Ochoa" High School in the City of Cuenca.

Materials and methods: this is a descriptive cross-sectional study with a quantitative approach. The sample - universe was composed of 380 female students who were registered in the academic year 2013 - 2014 and who were going to study days regularly. The responses of the 380 students of the forms created for this investigation were analyzed, for which the statistical package SPSS version 15 in Spanish was used. To tabulate the data we use mean, standard deviation and the prevalence ratio (PR).

Results: the prevalence of dysmenorrhea was 77.9%; which was subdivided into mild dysmenorrhea: 20.9%, moderate 49.3% and severe 29.8%. Dysmenorrhea relationship with BMI was not statistically significant; but the association with systemic involvement and truancy showed a significant difference with a value of p=0.000.