Effectiveness of Aerobic Dance on the Quality of Life of the Students with Premenstrual Symptoms

Kripa Angeline A

Abstract


Premenstrual symptoms are commonly affecting 80% of women. Among the youngsters the premenstrual symptoms commonly affects the daily activities and frequent absenteeism among the college students. So, the investigator was interested in providing intervention to reduce the symptoms. Written consent was obtained from the samples and PMS diary was distributed and instructed to maintain for a month. Quality of life was assessed with WHOQOL bref tool. Among the 122 population, 97 samples with PMS were selected by lottery method. Aerobic dance was given to the samples for a duration of 50 minutes every day for 5 days in a week for a duration of three months. Again, PMS diary was distributed to all the samples and monitored for 2 months. Quality of life was assessed with the same tool. After the drop out only 92 samples were analysed. The outcome of this study was, there is significant reduction in the severity of premenstrual symptom and improvement in the quality of life. The physical, psychological, social relationship and environmental aspects shows significant difference at P≤0.05 level. This study proved the effectiveness of Aerobic dance in the improvement of quality of life of the students with premenstrual symptoms.

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