A COMPARATIVE STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PELVIC ROCKING EXERCISE AND GINGER ON DYSMENORRHEA AMONG NURSING STUDENTS IN A SELECTED NURSING COLLEGE, BANGALORE
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2022-08
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Indian Society For Health And Advanced Research
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A spectrum of pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic measures is used for managing dysmenorrhea. A quasiexperimental comparative pre-test post-test design was adopted to find effectiveness of pelvic rocking exercise and ginger on dysmenorrhea and the data collection instruments used were structured baseline questionnaire and Verbal multidimensional scoring system (VMDS) and VAS for assessing the severity of dysmenorrhea. Study was carried out among 70 nursing students with 35 students each in exercise and ginger group, selected by simple random sampling technique for 2 menstrual cycles. Among the 70 subjects 17.15%, 62.85% and 20% subjects had severe, moderate and mild dysmenorrhea The finding of the study revealed that there is a significant more or less similar reduction in dysmenorrhea among nursing students practicing pelvic rocking exercise and consumption of ginger powder. Therefore, such simple remedial measures can be used in day – to day basis in reducing dysmenorrhea
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Pelvic rocking exercise, ginger, effectiveness, dysmenorrhea, nursing students
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Augustin Bibi . INFLUENCE OF ADVERTISEMENT ON BRAND IMAGE AND USERS PREFERENCE TOWARDS SELECT BEAUTY CARE PRODUCTS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ERODE DISTRICT. Indian Journal Of Applied Research. 2022 Aug; 12(8): 26-27