Psychological correlates of functional secondary amenorrhoea
Schreiber, C.; Florin, I.; Rost, W.
Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 39(2): 106-111
1983
ISSN/ISBN: 0033-3190 PMID: 6878594 DOI: 10.1159/000287728Document Number: 520373
Women (15) with functional secondary amenorrhea and controls (15), matched closely in age and educational status were compared as to their knowledge of menstruation, their attitude towards those parts of the body likely to be associated with sexuality and the amount of life events over the 6-mo. period preceding the onset of amenorrhea or an analog time-span for control subjects. Comparison of means confirmed the research hypotheses. Knowledge of menstruation was significantly lower and attitude towards sexuality-related body parts was significantly more negative in women with amenorrhea than in control women (P < 0.01 each). Subjects with amenorrhea showed more problems in their partner-related sexuality than control subjects did (P < 0.05), and had experienced more negative life events before the onset of amenorrhea than the healthy group had over an analog period of time (P < 0.05).