Dehnavi Zahra Mohebbi, Jafarnejad Farzaneh, Kamali Zahra
Department of Midwifery, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Department of Midwifery, Student Research Committee, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
J Educ Health Promot. 2018 Jan 10;7:3. doi: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_79_17. eCollection 2018.
Primary dysmenorrhea without pelvic pathology is one of the most common complaints in women's medicine. Primary dysmenorrhea can affect the quality of life of women. Aerobic exercise is one of the ways to reduce the severity of primary dysmenorrhea. The present study aimed to determine the effect of 8 weeks of aerobic exercise on the severity of primary dysmenorrhea.
This is a clinical trial study performed on 70 students with primary dysmenorrhea in dormitories of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences in 2015. Participants were randomly assigned to intervention and control groups. The instrument was a visual pain questionnaire completed by the two groups in the first 3 days of the menstrual cycle. The exercise protocol included aerobic exercise, which performed the intervention group for 8 weeks, three times a week, and each time for 30 min. Data were analyzed by Fisher and Chi-square tests.
The control and intervention groups were homogeneous in terms of demographic characteristics. Results showed that the severity of primary dysmenorrhea at the beginning of the study was not significantly correlated with the two groups. At the end of the 4 weeks after the intervention, the intervention group did not show any significant changes in the control group ( = 0.423) but At the end of 8 weeks after the study, the intervention group showed significant changes compared to the control group ( = 0.041).
The results of this study showed that performing aerobic exercise can improve primary dysmenorrhea. Therefore, aerobic exercise can be used to treat primary dysmenorrhea.
无盆腔病变的原发性痛经是妇科最常见的主诉之一。原发性痛经会影响女性的生活质量。有氧运动是减轻原发性痛经严重程度的方法之一。本研究旨在确定8周有氧运动对原发性痛经严重程度的影响。
这是一项2015年在马什哈德医科大学宿舍对70名原发性痛经学生进行的临床试验研究。参与者被随机分为干预组和对照组。测量工具是两组在月经周期的前3天填写的视觉疼痛问卷。运动方案包括有氧运动，干预组进行8周，每周3次，每次30分钟。数据采用Fisher检验和卡方检验进行分析。
对照组和干预组在人口统计学特征方面具有同质性。结果显示，研究开始时原发性痛经的严重程度在两组之间无显著相关性。干预后4周结束时，干预组与对照组相比无显著变化（P = 0.423），但在研究8周结束时，干预组与对照组相比有显著变化（P = 0.041）。
本研究结果表明，进行有氧运动可改善原发性痛经。因此，有氧运动可用于治疗原发性痛经。
