Effect of Perceived Stress on Menstruation among Adolescent Girls in a Selected College, Kanchipuram District, Tamil Nadu, India

Effect of Perceived Stress on Menstruation among Adolescent Girls in a Selected College, KanchipuramDistrict, Tamil Nadu, India. The objectives were to assess the effect of perceived stress on menstruationamong adolescent girls in a selected college, Correlate between perceived stress and blood flow duringmenstruation among adolescent girls, Associate between perceived stress on menstruation among adolescentgirls with their selected demographic variables, Associate between blood flow during menstruation amongadolescent girls with their selected demographic variables. The convenient sampling technique was used toselect 50 samples. The data were collected by using perceived stress scale and pictorial blood assessmentscale. The collected data were tabulated and analyzed. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used. Theresult showed that 12% of samples having low stress level, 80% of samples having moderate stress leveland 8% of samples having severe stress level and 16% of samples had low bleeding, 30% of sampleshad normal flow and 54% of samples had severe flow. There was moderate positive correlation (r = 0.84)between perceived stress and blood flow among adolescent girls. The demographic variables like menstrualcycle periodicity (X2=1.78) stress level, (X2=3.87) blood flow and duration of menstrual flow (X2=4.32)stress level, (X2=5.93) blood flow had significant association with stress and blood flow during menstruationrespectively.