Sociodemographic characteristics and pain assessment through the McGill questionnaire in women with primary dysmenorrhoea submitted to auriculotherapy

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Dysmenorrhea is characterized as severe pain during menstruation or a few hours before, located in the lower abdomen or lower abdomen, it is pathology of primary or secondary origin, in which 40 to 45% of pain cases chronic pelvic, manifests as dysmenorrhea. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the sociodemographic characteristics of women who have primary dysmenorrhea, and to evaluate the influence of auriculotherapy for menstruation, measured before and after the McGill questionnaire method. METHODS: This is a clinical, randomized, controlled and double-blind study, with a longitudinal design, with a qualitative and quantitative approach, carried out with a population of 118 students. The sample size was calculated using a single average formula, where the sample size is required; marginal error of 5% (d = 0.05); z is the degree of precision required at 95% of the confidence level. Initially, as volunteers, they were submitted to a sociodemographic questionnaire, and then to McGill's questionnaire, which evaluated various aspects of pain, and applied it for 2 months and 3 weeks, twice a week, for 20 minutes. RESULTS: The average age of the participants in this research is 19.8 years, with a predominance of mixed race and with regular menstrual cycle, and 55% present pain two days before menstruation. After auriculotherapy applications and data from McGill's questionnaires, after the intervention of significant statistical values in the domain of sensitive, affective, assessed domains and diverse aspects. CONCLUSION: The present study used or the design in the sociodemographic aspects of the population that has primary desmenorrhea. And in relation to the influences of auriculotherapy on the characteristics of pain, the method presented is statistically significant.