Prevalence of Dysmenorrhea and its impact on Sleep Quality and Academic Performance among school going girls: A Cross-Sectional Study

Dysmenorrhea is characterized by painful menses with cramps that start a
few hours before, the start of bleeding and may last for several hours or
even days. It is commonly associated with decrease in physical, social
activities which ultimately interrupted the activities of daily living among
school going girls. As proper sleep is the basic need of body to perform
activities of daily living, but due to dysmenorrhea sleep cycle gets
disturbed and it may affect academic performance. Also there was various
studies available that showed contradictory results regarding association
of dysmenorrhea with sleep quality and academic performance. Hence, to
fill this literature gap this study is done to find out the prevalence of
dysmenorrhea and its impact on sleep quality and academic performance
among school going girls.