INTRODUCTION: Dysmenorrhea is the most common gynecological problem in women in all ages.Most adolescence experience dysmenorrhea in the first 3 years after menarche. Young adult women ages 17 to 24 years are most likely to report painful menses
between 50% and 80%of women report some level of discomfort associated with menses and 10 to 18% report severe dysmenorrhea. It has been estimated that up to 10% of women have severe pain which interfere with their functioning for 1-3 days a month. OBJECTIVES: 1. To identify adolescent girls with dysmenorrhea. 2. To assess the effectiveness of mentha spicata paste on dysmenorrhea among adolescent girls. 3. To find the association between the post test level of pain and selected demographic variables among adolescent girls. METHODOLOGY: A pre experimental one group pretest post test research design and non probability purposive sampling technique was adopted among 60 samples of adolescent girls at Narayana College of Nursing in Nellore based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The results indicated that the pretest mean of pain was 0.1198 and standard deviation was 7.1749 whereas the post test mean was 0.0644 and standard deviation 0.3769. The calculated value of Z test was 8.09 which exceed the tabulated value 1.645.Hence the null hypothesis was rejected. There was a significant impact of mentha spicata paste on dysmenorrhoea. There was significant association between dysmenorrhoea among adolescents and their selected socio demographic variables family income was significant at 0.05 level and other variables like age, menstrual pattern, days of cycle, religion, mothers education, mother occupation, source of health information did not have any significant association. CONCLUSION : The findings of study revealed that the adolescent girls had dysmenorrhoea mild to moderate. Menthe spicata paste has great benefit to these adolescent girls as it reduced the severity of pain. Nurse administrator also can develop specific guidelines on effectively reducing the dysmenorrhoea.
Key words: mentha spicata paste, dysmenorrhea, adolescent girls, Pain
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