Relationship between premenstrual syndrome and healthy life style behaviours on university students

This descriptive study was conducted in order to examine the relationship between premenstrual syndrome and healthy life style behaviours on university students.The study was performed in Mehmet Akif Ersoy University Faculty of Education, Faculty of Arts and Science, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and School of Health between 15.10.2011?15.04.2012. The universe of the research was composed of a total 2163 girl students who were studying at these programs in between 2011-2012 Academic Year. The sampling size was calculated with power in ratio 90% with 0.05 error margin, and 667 girl students were included in the survey. The used data collection tools are ?Personal Information Form? including demographic characteristics, history of menstruation and premenstrual risk factors, ?Premenstrual Syndrome Scale? and ?Healthy Life Style Behavior Scale II?.In this study, the students? mean age was 20.27±1.60. It was found that 62% of students have experienced premenstrual syndrome. Students? mean score of Premenstrual Syndrome Scale was 121.30±34.02 and mean score of Healty Life Style Behavior Scale II was 123.50±18.63.. Logistic regression analysis results shown that, living at home alone or with friends, dysmenorrhea, consuming salt wihtout tasting of foods, having mothers with premenstrual syndrome, subscale mental development and subscale nutrition of Healthy Life Style Behavior Scale II affects the premenstrual syndrome prevelance of girl-students.As a result of the statistical analysis, we determined that students? premenstrual syndrome prevelance level was highly and healty life style behavior was mid level.Key Words:. Premenstrual Syndrome, Healty Life Style Behavior, Girl Student, University