TABLE 1.
Socio-demographic, menstrual and personality characteristics of the study participants.
| Variables | Study participants (N = 755) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median | Range | Mean ± s.d. | n | % | |
| Age (years) | - | - | 21.2 ± 3.7 | - | - |
| Faculty | - | - | - | - | - |
| Commerce | - | - | - | 565 | 74.8 |
| Medicine | - | - | 190 | 25.2 | |
| Residence | |||||
| Rural | - | - | - | 490 | 65.0 |
| Urban | - | - | - | 265 | 35.0 |
| Marital status | |||||
| Single | - | - | - | 647 | 85.7 |
| Married | - | - | - | 108 | 14.3 |
| Socio-economic class | |||||
| Low | - | - | - | 116 | 15.4 |
| Middle | - | - | - | 407 | 53.9 |
| High | - | - | - | 232 | 30.7 |
| Body mass index | |||||
| ˂ 30 kg/m2 (Non-obese) | - | - | - | 574 | 76.0 |
| ≥ 30 kg/m2 (Obese) | - | - | - | 181 | 24.0 |
| Age of menarche | |||||
| ˂ 12 years old | - | - | - | 102 | 13.5 |
| 12–14 years old | - | - | - | 463 | 61.3 |
| ˃ 14 years old | - | - | - | 190 | 25.2 |
| Duration of menstrual bleeding | |||||
| < 7 days | - | - | - | 486 | 64.4 |
| ≥ 7 days | - | - | - | 269 | 35.6 |
| The average length of one cycle | |||||
| ˂ 28 days | - | - | - | 249 | 33.0 |
| ≥ 28 days | - | - | - | 422 | 55.9 |
| Irregular | - | - | - | 84 | 11.1 |
| Menstrual bleed loss (MBL) | |||||
| Low (MBL-score ≤ 4) | - | - | - | 364 | 48.2 |
| High (MBL-score ˃ 4) | - | - | - | 391 | 51.8 |
| Dysmenorrhea | |||||
| Yes | - | - | - | 671 | 88.9 |
| No | - | - | - | 84 | 11.1 |
| Family history of premenstrual syndrome (sister/mother) | |||||
| Positive | - | - | - | 625 | 82.8 |
| Negative | - | - | - | 130 | 17.2 |
| Sedentary behaviour hours per day | 6.7 | 4.4– 11.8 | - | - | |
| BFI personality traits | |||||
| Extroversion | - | - | 25.6 ± 4.6 | - | - |
| Agreeableness | - | - | 35.4 ± 2.7 | - | - |
| Conscientiousness | - | - | 30.8 ± 3.5 | - | - |
| Neuroticism | - | - | 23.1 ± 4.5 | - | - |
| Openness | - | - | 32.2 ± 2.8 | - | - |
s.d., standard deviation; BFI, big five personality traits inventory; s.d., standard deviation.