Table 2.
Menstrual cycle status of students.
| Groups | Control |
Case |
P value∗ | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N (%) | Mean ± SD | N (%) | Mean ± SD | |||
| Age at menarche | 10–13 | 37 (74) | 12.85 ± 1.42 | 30 (60) | 13 ± 1.32 | 0.541 |
| 14–17 | 13 (26) | 20 (40) | ||||
| Duration of menstrual Cycles | 20–30 | 45 (90) | 29.90 ± 2.89 | 42 (84) | 29.18 ± 2.20 | 0.742 |
| 31–35 | 5 (10) | 8 (16) | ||||
| Having pain (dysmenorrhea) | Yes | 45 (90) | – | 44 (88) | – | 0.500 |
| No | 5 (10) | 6 (12) | ||||
| During of menstrual bleeding | 3–6 | 28 (56) | 5.82 ± 1.38 | 23 (46) | 6.18 ± 1.32 | 0.198 |
| 7–10 | 22 (44) | 27 (54) | ||||
| Having spotting | Yes | 13 (26) | – | 14 (28) | – | 0.500 |
| No | 37 (74) | 36 (72) | ||||
| Total | 50 (100) | 50 (100) | ||||
*The P values were tested using independent t-test and chi-squared test.