Effect of Menstrual Disorders on Student’s Quality of Life at Faculty of Nursing Beni-Suef University

Abstract

The period of adolescence is transition from childhood to adult life along with pubertal development and sexual maturation. During puberty, hormonal, psychological, cognitive and physical changes occur simultaneously. The period of adolescence for a girl is a period of physical and psychological transformation for motherhood. One of the major physiological changes that take place in adolescent girls is the onset of menarche (Nazeema et al., 2017). Menstruation is a normal physiological phenomenon for females indicating her capability for procreation and abnormalities of menstruation are major gynecological problems in adolescence (Nooh et al., 2014). Menstrual disorders are common in adolescence because they are closely related to the processes involved in the pubertal development of females. Common menstrual disorders reported among young women include dysmenorrhea, irregular frequency of menstruation, premenstrual syndrome (PMS), irregular duration of flow amenorrhea, polymenorrhea, and oligomenorrhea (Rajsinh et al., 2013). Menstrual disorders can cause some consequences such as limitations on attendance at work and academic