Mosallanejad Z, Gaeini Abbas Ali, Mosallanejad Leila. The effect of continuous aerobic exercise on premenstrual syndrome: a randomized clinical trial. Tehran Univ Med J 2008; 65 (13) :49-53
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Background: Premenstrual syndrome is one of the most incidencial problems in
women’s during reproductive age. That effect personal performance in family and society
status. Varied therapeutic treatment has been studied for its promotion. The main
attention was to find a method without complications. This study performed with aim of
assessing effect of one period of continuous aerobic exercise on premenstrual syndrome
in 18-25 years female students in jahrom medical school.
Methods: This study was a kind of semi experimental study with two group plane. Forty
students were assessed for premenstrual syndrome with regular mense, without previous
history of Diabetes mellitus and Thyroid, Gynecologic and psychological disease.
Twenty subjects (with similar VO2 MAX) were selected and randomly divided to two
experimental and control groups. Data gathering was from ILPDD questionnaire
concluded 11 question about signs and symptoms of mental and physical complain
related to premenstrual syndrome that filled by samples. All samples have positive five
complain that four of them depend on mental symptoms of premenstrual syndrome.
Intensity of quantity of premenstrual syndrome and levels of estrogen and progesterone
were measured. Then, exercise regime including continuous aerobic exercise, were
performed for eight weeks, with frequency of three sessions every week. At the end of 8th
week, posttests were repeated in the situation similar to pretest. Analytic statistic as a
Nonparametric Mann-whitney test, and nonparametric Wilcoxon signed ranks test was
used for comparing variables.
Results: This study showed that after two method of aerobic exercise, somatic and
effective complain was decrease in case group (p>0.05). Hormonal change in two groups
was not significant.
Conclusion: Releaving aerobic experiences is effective for somatic and affective
complains secondary to premenstrual syndrome and this plan can be replace by other
methods of medical management.