Abstract
<p>Premenstrual syndrome includes a variety of abnormal physical, psychological, and emotional symptoms associated with a woman's menstrual cycle. The syndrome can interfere with several aspects of women’s lives and lead to a decrease in work productivity and concentration in school, as well as anxiety and depression.</p><p>The aim of this study was to determine the effect of Penguin <em>exercise</em> on the anxiety levels of young women who experience premenstrual syndrome.<em> </em>This type of research was Quasi Experimental using pre and post test design with a control group. The population of this study were all 8th grade students at SMP N 9 Purwokerto. The sampling technique was simple random sampling. The instrument used to assess anxiety levels was the <em>Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale</em> (TMAS) questionnaire. Analysis of the data was performed using Wilcoxon's rank sum test. </p><p>The results showed that Penguin <em>exercise</em> had a significant effect on the level of anxiety in the treatment group (value p = 0,000) and there was no significant effect on the control group (p value = 0.233). The conclusion of this study is that Penguin <em>exercise</em> can affect the anxiety levels of 8th grade female students at SMP N 9 Purwokerto who experience premenstrual syndrome.</p><p> </p>
Highlights
Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) is a physical, psychological and emotional syndrome that occurs due to a woman’s menstrual cycle
The results showed that Penguin exercise had a significant effect on the level of anxiety in the treatment group and there was no significant effect on the control group (p value = 0.233)
Anxiety was found to have a significant correlation with PMS for medical students in Universitas Muhammadiyah Purwokerto (UMP) (p=0.001; r=0.386)
Summary
Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) is a physical, psychological and emotional syndrome that occurs due to a woman’s menstrual cycle. It is considered to be a predictable syndrome and commonly happens around two weeks prior to the menstrual period occurring (Prawirohardjo et al, 2011). PMS usually disappears when the bleeding of menstruation starts but it may continue afterwards (Suprayanto, 2010). PMS is a syndrome that occurs prior to the woman’s menstrual cycle and disappears when the process of menstruation begins. PMS is indicated by some signs and symptoms such as stomach cramps, headaches, back pain, intense anger and stress (Elvira, 2010). The symptoms generally appear for the last 710 days before menstruation begins (Nugroho & Utama, 2014) and they can occur routinely during every woman’s menstrual cycle (Ratikasari, 2015)
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