Cocokara Women's Clinic, Nagoya 461-0001, Japan.
Department of Global Health Promotion, Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU), Tokyo 113-8519, Japan.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Jan 18;18(2):781. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18020781.
Childhood maltreatment history has known relationships with various mental and physical diseases; however, little is known about its association with premenstrual syndrome (PMS). In this study, we investigated the association between childhood maltreatment history and PMS among young women in Japan. In a Japanese city, we approached 3815 women aged 10-60 years who visited a gynecology clinic and one general practice clinic. A questionnaire on childhood maltreatment history and PMS was administered to them. We observed that women with histories of childhood maltreatment demonstrated a significantly increased risk of PMS compared with those without such histories (odds ratio: 1.47, 95% confidence interval: 1.20-1.81). Particularly, women with childhood physical or emotional abuse demonstrated a stronger association with PMS, whereas other forms of childhood maltreatment (emotional neglect, witnessing of intimate-partner violence, or sexual abuse) were not associated with PMS. Our results illustrate that childhood maltreatment may be a risk factor for PMS.
童年期虐待史与各种精神和身体疾病有关；然而，其与经前综合征（PMS）的关系知之甚少。在这项研究中，我们调查了日本年轻女性中童年期虐待史与 PMS 之间的关系。在日本的一个城市，我们接触了 3815 名年龄在 10 至 60 岁之间的女性，她们曾到妇科诊所和一家综合诊所就诊。我们向她们发放了一份关于童年期虐待史和 PMS 的问卷。我们观察到，有童年期虐待史的女性患 PMS 的风险明显高于没有此类病史的女性（比值比：1.47，95%置信区间：1.20-1.81）。特别是，有童年期身体或情感虐待史的女性与 PMS 的相关性更强，而其他形式的童年期虐待（情感忽视、目睹亲密伴侣暴力或性虐待）与 PMS 无关。我们的结果表明，童年期虐待可能是 PMS 的一个风险因素。
