Early Recognition of Endometriosis Depending on Severity of Dysmenorrhea among Adolescent Girls

Background: Endometriosis is recognized as the ‘disease of young girls’ because it seems to be more common in young girls. Early diagnosis is greatly essential to receive appropriate treatment and avoid complications. Aim of the study: to evaluate severe dysmenorrhea for early recognition of endometriosis among adolescent girls. Subject and Methods: Cross-sectional descriptive design was used in this study. The study included 571 adolescent girls from 4 representative elementary schools in Assiut city. A structured Questionnaire was developed by the investigators and included four parts: Part I: demographic data; Part II: menstrual pattern: Part III. Pain history including: a. pain characteristics. b. Menstrual pain associating symptoms: c. Pain level: using of Horizontal Visual Analog Scale (VAS) 0-10 points. Part IV: finding of Trans-abdominal ultrasound (AUS) for those with severe dysmenorrhea. Field work: The study passed through three phases including assessment, implementation, and follow up phases with a period of 7 months. Results: the majority of the girls were between the age of 13 - 14 years. According to VAS, severe dysmenorrhea was reported in 68 girls (15%). Positive ultrasonography findings suggestive of endometriosis were reported among 57.4% of girls who had severe dysmenorrhea. The majority (71.2%) of those girls with severe dysmenorrhea responded to hormonal treatment while 28.2% not responded. There was a positive correlation between number of symptoms associating dysmenorrhea and the pain level. Conclusions and recommendations: Moderate and severe dysmenorrhea are common among adolescent. Those girls who had severe dysmenorrhea and more than five symptoms associating dysmenorrhea might be suspected to have endometriosis. Further large scale study is essential with the use of more informative investigations as MRI and laparoscopy to gain accurate estimate of the prevalence of the disease and its types. | Published in | American Journal of Nursing Science (Volume 8, Issue 4) | | DOI | 10.11648/j.ajns.20190804.21 | | Page(s) | 191-199 | | Creative Commons | This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited. | | Copyright | Copyright © The Author(s), 2019. Published by Science Publishing Group |

Endometriosis, Dysmenorrhea, Adolescent Girls

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Early Recognition of Endometriosis Depending on Severity of Dysmenorrhea among Adolescent Girls. American Journal of Nursing Science, 8(4), 191-199. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ajns.20190804.21 ACS Style Youssria Elsayed Yousef; Salwa Ali Marzouk; Hameida Alam Eldien; Howieda Fouly; Neama Mohamed El Magrab, et al. Early Recognition of Endometriosis Depending on Severity of Dysmenorrhea among Adolescent Girls. Am. J. Nurs. Sci. 2019, 8(4), 191-199. doi: 10.11648/j.ajns.20190804.21 AMA Style Youssria Elsayed Yousef, Salwa Ali Marzouk, Hameida Alam Eldien, Howieda Fouly, Neama Mohamed El Magrab, et al. Early Recognition of Endometriosis Depending on Severity of Dysmenorrhea among Adolescent Girls. Am J Nurs Sci. 2019;8(4):191-199. doi: 10.11648/j.ajns.20190804.21 - @article{10.11648/j.ajns.20190804.21, author = {Youssria Elsayed Yousef and Salwa Ali Marzouk and Hameida Alam Eldien and Howieda Fouly and Neama Mohamed El Magrab and Safaa Rashad Mahmoud}, title = {Early Recognition of Endometriosis Depending on Severity of Dysmenorrhea among Adolescent Girls}, journal = {American Journal of Nursing Science}, volume = {8}, number = {4}, pages = {191-199}, doi = {10.11648/j.ajns.20190804.21}, url = {https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ajns.20190804.21}, eprint = {https://article.sciencepublishinggroup.com/pdf/10.11648.j.ajns.20190804.21}, abstract = {Background: Endometriosis is recognized as the ‘disease of young girls’ because it seems to be more common in young girls. Early diagnosis is greatly essential to receive appropriate treatment and avoid complications. Aim of the study: to evaluate severe dysmenorrhea for early recognition of endometriosis among adolescent girls. Subject and Methods: Cross-sectional descriptive design was used in this study. The study included 571 adolescent girls from 4 representative elementary schools in Assiut city. A structured Questionnaire was developed by the investigators and included four parts: Part I: demographic data; Part II: menstrual pattern: Part III. Pain history including: a. pain characteristics. b. Menstrual pain associating symptoms: c. Pain level: using of Horizontal Visual Analog Scale (VAS) 0-10 points. Part IV: finding of Trans-abdominal ultrasound (AUS) for those with severe dysmenorrhea. Field work: The study passed through three phases including assessment, implementation, and follow up phases with a period of 7 months. Results: the majority of the girls were between the age of 13 - 14 years. According to VAS, severe dysmenorrhea was reported in 68 girls (15%). Positive ultrasonography findings suggestive of endometriosis were reported among 57.4% of girls who had severe dysmenorrhea. The majority (71.2%) of those girls with severe dysmenorrhea responded to hormonal treatment while 28.2% not responded. There was a positive correlation between number of symptoms associating dysmenorrhea and the pain level. Conclusions and recommendations: Moderate and severe dysmenorrhea are common among adolescent. Those girls who had severe dysmenorrhea and more than five symptoms associating dysmenorrhea might be suspected to have endometriosis. Further large scale study is essential with the use of more informative investigations as MRI and laparoscopy to gain accurate estimate of the prevalence of the disease and its types.}, year = {2019} } - TY - JOUR T1 - Early Recognition of Endometriosis Depending on Severity of Dysmenorrhea among Adolescent Girls AU - Youssria Elsayed Yousef AU - Salwa Ali Marzouk AU - Hameida Alam Eldien AU - Howieda Fouly AU - Neama Mohamed El Magrab AU - Safaa Rashad Mahmoud Y1 - 2019/07/16 PY - 2019 N1 - https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ajns.20190804.21 DO - 10.11648/j.ajns.20190804.21 T2 - American Journal of Nursing Science JF - American Journal of Nursing Science JO - American Journal of Nursing Science SP - 191 EP - 199 PB - Science Publishing Group SN - 2328-5753 UR - https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ajns.20190804.21 AB - Background: Endometriosis is recognized as the ‘disease of young girls’ because it seems to be more common in young girls. Early diagnosis is greatly essential to receive appropriate treatment and avoid complications. Aim of the study: to evaluate severe dysmenorrhea for early recognition of endometriosis among adolescent girls. Subject and Methods: Cross-sectional descriptive design was used in this study. The study included 571 adolescent girls from 4 representative elementary schools in Assiut city. A structured Questionnaire was developed by the investigators and included four parts: Part I: demographic data; Part II: menstrual pattern: Part III. Pain history including: a. pain characteristics. b. Menstrual pain associating symptoms: c. Pain level: using of Horizontal Visual Analog Scale (VAS) 0-10 points. Part IV: finding of Trans-abdominal ultrasound (AUS) for those with severe dysmenorrhea. Field work: The study passed through three phases including assessment, implementation, and follow up phases with a period of 7 months. Results: the majority of the girls were between the age of 13 - 14 years. According to VAS, severe dysmenorrhea was reported in 68 girls (15%). Positive ultrasonography findings suggestive of endometriosis were reported among 57.4% of girls who had severe dysmenorrhea. The majority (71.2%) of those girls with severe dysmenorrhea responded to hormonal treatment while 28.2% not responded. There was a positive correlation between number of symptoms associating dysmenorrhea and the pain level. Conclusions and recommendations: Moderate and severe dysmenorrhea are common among adolescent. Those girls who had severe dysmenorrhea and more than five symptoms associating dysmenorrhea might be suspected to have endometriosis. Further large scale study is essential with the use of more informative investigations as MRI and laparoscopy to gain accurate estimate of the prevalence of the disease and its types. VL - 8 IS - 4 ER - Author Information Copyright © 2012 -- 2026 Science Publishing Group – All rights reserved.