Traditional Practices Self Reported by Nursing Students to Relieve Dysmenorrhea | ||||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||||
| Article 13, Volume 11, Issue 1, March 2020, Page 176-190 PDF (499.89 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2020.74777 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Entsar Abd Elmonaem Mohamed1; Aziza Ahmed Attia1; Amel Ahmed Hassan Omran2; HendAbd Allah Elsayed Afifi2 | ||||
| 1Maternity and Neonatal Health Nursing-,Faculty of Nursing-Ain Shams University. | ||||
| 2Obstetrics and Woman Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing-Benha University. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Background: The study aimed to assess traditional practices self-reported by nursing students to relieve dysmenorrhea. The study design was descriptive design. Setting: the study was conducted in nursing technical secondary school at Benha university hospital. Sampling: purposive sample that consisted of 150 students suffered from dysmenorrhea in the three years of the nursing secondary school. Tools of data collection: structured interviewing questionnaire, knowledge assessment sheet and assessment of used traditional practices by nursing students. Results: 64.7%of the studied sample had unsatisfactory knowledge about dysmenorrhea, 37.1% of studied students always used many of traditional practices to relieve dysmenorrheal and 44% of studied sample satisfied with traditional practices used for menstrual pain relief. Conclusion: Less than two thirds of the studied students always used many of traditional practices to relieve dysmenorrhea. The most common traditional method was drinking natural herbs followed by taking a warm bath and massaging the abdomen as reported by females. Recommendations: Encouraging the student females to use traditional methods in the first days of menses for relieving dysmenorrhea. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Dysmenorrhea; traditional practices; Nursing students | ||||
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