Effect of Severity of Premenstrual Symptoms on Quality of Life among University Students

By : Sunita Gupta , Supriya Sharma

Page No: 191-199

Abstract
The present study investigated the effect of severity of premenstrual symptoms on quality of life in female university students. 150 female post graduate students in the age range of 20-23 years served as the subjects. Premenstrual symptoms checklist based on ICD-10 classification (Pal, Dennerstein and Lehert, 2011) and Women’s Quality Of Life Questionnaire (Gehlert, 2006) were administered to all the subjects. On the basis of severity of premenstrual symptoms using Mean ± 1.0 S.D. as the criterion, the students were classified into those having severe or mild premenstrual symptoms. The data was analyzed by t-test. The t-test clearly indicated that the subjects having more severe premenstrual symptoms had low scores on all domains of quality of life as compared to those having less severe premenstrual symptoms.

Authors :
Supriya Sharma : Research Scholar — Department of Psychology, GNDU, Amritsar.
Sunita Gupta : Professor & Head — Department of Psychology, GNDU, Amritsar