Exploring The Relationship Between Menstrual Distress Symptoms and their Impact on Overall Wellbeing in Female Young Adults

Abstract

The study aimed to investigate relationship between menstrual distress symptoms and its effect on the overall well-being of young adult females. Self-reported measures of menstrual distress symptoms and general well-being were collected from a cross section of young female adults. It is found that as menstrual distress increases its impact on general well-being tends to increase as well. The reason behind such findings is because of the discrepancy in the population size of both urban (80) and rural (70) sample. The urban population reported positive well-being and the rural ones reported a negative well-being, therefore, the overall correlation for the population turned out to be positive. Random and purposive sampling was utilized to choose the final group of 150 participants, and the initiative was taken to collect data from the suburban/ rural population as well, as the study contains participants only from one gender. The sample mainly consisted of females in the age group of 18- 35 years who experience menstrual distress symptoms. The data in this study was obtained with the help of the standardized scales; (The Menstrual Distress Questionnaire (MEDI-Q)) and (The Psychological General Well-Being Scale (PGI GWS)) as well as a demographic information form. The findings suggest that a significant relationship between menstrual distress and the well-being of young adult females between the ages of 18 to 35 years has been found and there is a positive correlation between menstrual distress symptoms and the overall well-being of the participants.