Table 2.
Subjective Measures of Mood, Sleep Quality, and Morning Alertness in Women with PMS and Control Subjects During the Follicular and Late Luteal Phases of the Menstrual Cycle.
| Measure | Group | Menstrual Phase |
Analysis of variance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Follicular | Late luteal | |||
| Beck depression inventorya | Control | 1 (2) | 1 (2) | Group effect: F1,18 = 28.6, P < 0.001 |
| PMS | 7 (5) | 20 (14)** | Phase effect: F1,18 = 8.6, P = 0.009 | |
| Interaction: F1,18 = 8.4, P = 0.01 | ||||
| Profile of mood states (total mood score) | Control | 89 (16) | 88 (14) | Group effect: F1,19 = 17.8, P < 0.001 |
| PMS | 105 (23) | 143 (46)*# | Phase effect: F1,19 = 5.4, P = 0.03 | |
| Interaction: F1,19 = 6.0, P = 0.02 | ||||
| Subjective sleep quality VAS. mmb | Control | 73 (14) | 63 (21)# | Group effect: F1,18 = 3.8, P = 0.07 |
| PMS | 64 (29) | 42 (28)# | Phase effect: F1,18 = 4.3, P = 0.05 | |
| Interaction: F1,18 = 0.9, NS | ||||
| Subjective morning alertness VAS, mmb | Control | 65 (12) | 67 (16) | Group effect: F1,18 = 8.6, P < 0.01 |
| PMS | 42 (26)* | 52 (28)* | Phase effect: F1,18 = 1.4, NS | |
| Interaction: F1,18 = 0.6, NS | ||||
*
Significantly different from controls (Tukey, P < 0.01)
#
Significantly different from follicular phase (Tukey, P < 0.05);
a
n = 11 control subjects.
b
n = 8 women with premenstrual syndrome (PMS).
PMS refers to premenstrual syndrome; VAS, visual analogue scale.