The Symptom Experience of Women With Perimenstrual Syndrome;Women's Health Related Quality of Life.

The purpose of these series research project is to investigate the prevalence, symptoms cluster and characteristic; establish the systemic symptom management nursing strategies (PMS-SMP); determine short-and long-term effectiveness of PMS-SMP. To enhance the health related quality of life of women with Perimenstrual syndrome. Simultaneously, the PMS-SMP offers a research and clinical based protocol to demonstrate the independent nursing role and practice care model. The 3-year series research process will include three research domains.

Symptoms are the most common reason people seek health care. Although the menstrual cycle, a normative process, but 10~15% of western women experience sever recurring symptoms associated with the menstrual cycle that can be considered a chronic illness. There are many interventional researches focus on this issue in western countries. There is not only lack of evidence base prevalence of perimenstrual syndrome, but also never found any nursing intervention project focusing on women with perimenstrual syndrome.

The purpose of these series research project is to investigate the prevalence, symptoms cluster and characteristic; establish the systemic symptom management nursing strategies (PMS-SMP); determine short-and long-term effectiveness of PMS-SMP. To enhance the health related quality of life of women with Perimenstrual syndrome. Simultaneously, the PMS-SMP offers a research and clinical based protocol to demonstrate the independent nursing role and practice care model. The 3-year series research process will include three research domains.

Content analysis, descriptive statistics(percentage, mode, medium, quartile, rank), Chi-square, One way ANOVA, MANCOVA, and Step-Wise regression will be applied to examine the research finding. Although focused on perimenstrual symptoms relief and improve the health related quality of life of women with perimenstrual symptoms, these strategies are generally health promoting and can be applied to other women’s health conditions.

Intervention(s) in this Clinical Trial

• Behavioral: self-care, health behavior

Inclusion Criteria:

• female

Exclusion Criteria:

• pregnancy,menopause,woman with breast-feeding

Gender Eligibility for this Clinical Trial: Female

Minimum Age for this Clinical Trial: 20 Years

Maximum Age for this Clinical Trial: N/A

Are Healthy Volunteers Accepted for this Clinical Trial?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Lead Investigator: National Taiwan University Hospital Other

Overall Clinical Trial Officials and Contacts

Yang Ya Ling Study Chair National Taiwan University Hospital  

Overall Contact: Yang Ya Ling, Master 886-2-23123456 ylyang@ha.mc.ntu.edu.tw

Information obtained from ClinicalTrials.gov on February 12, 2012

Link to the current ClinicalTrials.gov record. http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00174161

Study ID Number: 9461700617

ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00174161

Health Authority: Taiwan: Department of Health