Chamali Rifka, Emam Rana, Mahfoud Ziyad R, Al-Amin Hassen
Department of Research, Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar, Doha 00974, Qatar.
Department of Psychiatry, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha 00974, Qatar.
World J Psychiatry. 2022 Apr 19;12(4):603-614. doi: 10.5498/wjp.v12.i4.603.
Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is the constellation of physical and psychological symptoms before menstruation. Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) is a severe form of PMS with more depressive and anxiety symptoms. The Mini international neuropsychiatric interview, module U (MINI-U), assesses the diagnostic criteria for probable PMDD. The Premenstrual Symptoms screening tool (PSST) measures the severity of these symptoms.
To compare the PSST ordinal scores with the corresponding dichotomous MINI-U answers.
Arab women ( = 194) residing in Doha, Qatar, received the MINI-U and PSST. Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC) analyses provided the cut-off scores on the PSST using MINI-U as a gold standard.
All PSST ratings were higher in participants with positive responses on MINI-U. In addition, ROC analyses showed that all areas under the curves were significant with the cutoff scores on PSST.
This study confirms that the severity measures from PSST can recognize patients with moderate/ severe PMS and PMDD who would benefit from immediate treatment.
经前综合征（PMS）是指月经前出现的一系列身体和心理症状。经前烦躁障碍（PMDD）是PMS的一种严重形式，具有更多的抑郁和焦虑症状。迷你国际神经精神病学访谈模块U（MINI-U）用于评估可能的PMDD的诊断标准。经前症状筛查工具（PSST）用于测量这些症状的严重程度。
比较PSST的序数评分与相应的MINI-U二分法答案。
居住在卡塔尔多哈的194名阿拉伯女性接受了MINI-U和PSST测试。以MINI-U作为金标准，采用受试者操作特征（ROC）分析确定PSST的临界分数。
MINI-U回答为阳性的参与者的所有PSST评分均更高。此外，ROC分析表明，所有曲线下面积均具有统计学意义，且PSST有临界分数。
本研究证实，PSST的严重程度测量方法可以识别出中度/重度PMS和PMDD患者，这些患者将从立即治疗中受益。
