DYSMENORRHOEA: EXPERIENCES OF LIFE EXPRESSED BY ADOLESCENTS
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https://doi.org/10.5380/ce.v5i2.44879Keywords:
Adolescence, Dysmenorrhea, Menarche, Menstruation.Abstract
The dysmenorrhoea is defined, by Fonseca et al (2000), as period painful, associated, in the adolescence, to you factor biological, psychological and social. The research has, as objectives, to describe what meant for the adolescent the first period and to detect the knowledge on the dysmenorrhoea. Exploratory and descriptive nature study accomplished in an organ of the Clerkship of Health of the State of Ceará, of January to April of 2001, with adolescents among 14 and 19 years, dysmenorrhoea bearers. The collection of data felt through application of a semi-structured interview. The data were disposed in tables.The analysis of the data felt in a quantitative way through tables, but it also proceeded the qualitative analysis when commenting the depositions relating them to the authors. The results could point that some adolescents participants of this research found the first period a trauma; they also see the period as a negative event in your lives, in spite of being the process considered important, for the fact of the period to be understood as femininity synonym. Still most, she doesn’t know the causes of the menstrual pain.
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