1 Graduate Institute of Cultural Assets and Reinvention, Fo Guang University, Yilan, Taiwan;
2 Effectived Integration Medical Association, Taipei, Taiwan;
3 Department of Chinese Medicine, E-DA Dachang Hospital, The School of Chinese Medicine for Post-Baccalaureate, I Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan;
4 The School of Chinese Medicine for Post-Baccalaureate, I Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
5 College of LOHAS Industry, Fo Guang University, Yilan, Taiwan.
【Summary】
Purpose: Dysmenorrhea is one of the common diseases among women. It not only affects women’s physical quality, but also affects the physiological level. Holistic concept and syndrome differentiation and treatment are two basic characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine, which are inseparable from physical fitness. This study was investigated the correlation between dysmenorrhea and TCM constitution in female adolescents, further analyze whether it is related to the demographic data, disease status, family history and disease treatment, hoping enough traditional Chinese physician and Western physician’s clinical references.
Methods: This study adopts a structured questionnaire survey with the purposive sampling. The objects are randomly selected students of National Lan-Yang Girls’ Senior High School. The first part of the questionnaire is personal basic information, the second part is menstrual related information, and the third part is TCM constitution quality table.
Results: A total of 483 cases were accepted, among which 110 (22.8%) were 15 years old, 147 (30.4%) were 16 years old, and 168 (34.8%) were 17 years old. There were 90 (18.6%) at the menstrual age of 11, 173 (35.8%) at the menstrual age of 12, and 121 (25.1%) at the menstrual age of 13. There were 124 (25.7%) had an 13 underweight BMI, 33 (6.8%) had an overweight BMI, and 21 (4.3%) had an obese BMI. Among them, 283 (58.6%) had menstrual pain experience, and 188 (38.9%) had no menstrual pain experience. The main symptom of menstrual pain is lower abdominal pain, and the most common type and degree of menstrual pain is mild throbbing pain and discomfort. here is a significant correlation between the degree of menstrual pain and TCM constitution (χ2 =14.06，p=.03＜.05), on the contrary, there is no significant correlation between the presence of dysmenorrhea and TCM constitution.
Conclusion: There is a relationship between the severity of menstrual pain or severe menstrual pain and TCM constitution.
【Keywords】dysmenorrhea, Traditional Chinese Medicine Constitution, primary dysmenorrhea, secondary dysmenorrhea, female adolescents
263.1 青少女經痛與中醫體質之相關性研究： 以蘭陽女中為例
