Lifestyle and pain intensity in follicular phase

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Gyan Karla Advíncola dos
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Becker, Crislayne Advíncula dos Santos, Silva, Natália Cristina de Oliveira Vargas, Alfieri, Fábio Marcon
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Saúde (Santa Maria)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsm.br/revistasaude/article/view/37456
• topic: Life style; Pain; Menstrual cycle; Estilo de vida; Dor; Ciclo menstrual

Objective: To verify the objective of this study was to relate the intensity of pain reported during the follicular period with the lifestyle adopted by university students. Methods: It was an observational cross-sectional study involving university women aged between 18 and 30 years old. Pain in the follicular phase was evaluated by the visual analogue scale and the LS by the FANTASTICO Lifestyle questionnaire. The university students were divided into three groups according to the intensity of the pain (0-3.9: low, 4-7.9: moderate and 8-10: intense). Spearman’s correlation test was employed to evaluate the associations between variables, and comparisons between the three groups were performed by one-way ANOVA, with Bonferroni post hoc test. Results: The sample consisted of 110 women, with mean age of 20.9 ± 2 years and mean pain intensity of 5.7 ± 2.8 in visual analogue scale. There was no association between visual analogue scale and Lifestyle. However, there was a significant difference regarding Lifestyle of women with low pain intensity when compared to those with moderate and intense pain, showing that women with better Lifestyle had lower referred pain in the follicular phase of the menstrual cycle. Conclusions: There is no association between lifestyle and referred pain intensity during the follicular period of college students, however, when divided according to pain intensity, it is observed that those with less pain have a better lifestyle.