FACTORES DETERMINANTES DE LA DISMENORREA EN ESTUDIANTES DE LA CARRERA DE MEDICINA DE LA UNIVERSIDAD TÉCNICA DE MANABÍ. SEPTIEMBRE 2006 A FEBRERO 2007.

Abstract

In the city of Portoviejo county of Manabí she/he was carried out a descriptive, analytic study, of traverse cohort to 283 students of the career of medicine of the Technical University of Manabí during the period of September 2006 to February of the 2007; with the purpose of quantifying the dysmenorrhea incidence, to identify the decisive factors of the dysmenorrhea, general characteristics, as well as to determine the treatment type that you/they use. Regarding the clinical characteristics of the dysmenorrhea analyzing finds that the incidence of this it was of 87%; being more frequent in women of 17 to 21 years (56,2%) The habit but you frequent it was the coffee (37,8%); The pathology that you associates with more frequency to this it was the syndrome of ovary cyst (15,5%) Among the decisive factors we find that the majority group began its menarque from the 11 to 13 years of age (70%), with a menstrual cycle to regulate of intensity moderato (79%), with 1 to 3 days of menstrual fluid (41%) suffering of 1 day of moderate dysmenorrhea (29%); in relation to the family but common antecedent it was that of the sister (32,9%). When speaking of the implications psychological the irritability (62%), I alter their emotional acting and intellectual preventing him to study. The pain but it frequents it was the colic type in the inferior part of the abdomen and the used pharmacological treatment was the consumption of analgesic (25,1%) and inside the alternative treatments the hot bathrooms (11,3%).