This study was conducted to determine the difference between impact of aerobic and aquatic exercise on primary dysmenorrhea and quality of life in adolescent girls.
Dysmenorrhea manifests as painful menstrual flow it occurs in two forms primary and secondary. Primary and secondary dysmenorrhea is painful menstruation occur without any gynecological disease it was conducted that prevalence of dysmenorrhea 74.6% and it was significantly more frequent in students from rural residence (Shaimaa et al., 2018). There is only one previous study investigate effect of aquatic exercise on primary dysmenorrhea (Rezvani et al., 2013). There are several previous studies investigate effect of aerobic ex , however non of the previous studies compared between effect of aerobic and aquatic exercise on primary dysmenorrhea and quality of life of adolescent girls .Therefore this study was the first one which aimed to investigate the difference between effect of aerobic and aquatic exercise on primary dysmenorrhea and quality of life in adolescent girls.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
60
The aquatic exercises included 5 minutes of warming up in form of walking and running in water, 20 minutes of aerobic and strengthening exercises of pelvis, abdominal and thigh muscles (Double-leg Squat, lunge, knee flexion and extension, hip flexion and
The exercise protocol consists of 5 minute warm up, 35 min aerobic exercise and 5 minute cool-down. Exercises high-intensity treadmill-based treatment for primary dysmenorrhea for three days a week ,The Borg Rating of Perceived Exertion (RPE) Scale from 6 ('no exertion at all') to 20 ('maximal exertion') was used to regulate the exercise intensity on the treadmill. Participants were encouraged to increase the speed of the treadmill until they perceived their RPE to be between 14 and 16. or at a perceived exertion of 11.0 (Borg scale) for the first five minutes (warm-up period), followed by aerobic exercise at 70-85% of maximum heart rate (MHR) (16.0-18.0 Borg scale) for 30 minutes. At the end of the exercise session, women completed a 5-minute cool-down (11.0 Borg scale).
Cairo University
Giza, Egypt
Assessment of dysmenorrhea severity
It was assessed for each participant in the two groups (A \& B) before and after 12 weeks of treatment at the first day of menstruation, using WaLIDD scale, which has high sensitivity and high specificity.
Time frame: 12 weeks
Measurement of pain intensity
It was measured for each participant in both groups (A \& B) before and after 12 weeks of treatment at the first day of menstruation, using the Arabic version of numeric pain rating scale. The respondents were required to select a number (0-10 integers) that best reflected the intensity of her pain. In the numeric pain rating scale, 0 represented no pain, 1-3 indicated mild pain, 4-6 indicated moderate pain, while 7-10 indicated severe pain.
Time frame: 12 weeks
Assessment of pressure pain threshold (PPT)
The PPT was measured for each participant in both groups (A \& B) before and after 12 weeks of treatment at the first day of menstruation, using a pressure algometry.
Time frame: 12 weeks
Assessment of health related quality of life
The health related quality of life of all participants in both groups (A \& B) was evaluated before and after the end of treatment program, using the Arabic version of EQ-5D-3L questionnaire.
Time frame: 12 weeks
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