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Refer to the table above, table 1 with the result of the overall participants who

responded “yes” within the familiarity of premenstrual syndrome.


In Table 2, the result shows that symptoms are experienced less than a week prior
menstruation, for the most part they answered 1-2 days on their experiencing
premenstrual syndrome prior to their first day of menstruation, only participant 1 who
answered 7 days while participant 2 answered 1 week prior on the first day of
menstruation.
On the Table 3, comparing on their signs and symptoms felt during the premenstrual
phase, Participant 1 claims that her symptoms are mainly negative wherein she became
more emotionally, physically, and mentally unstable due to her sudden shift in moods,
physical fatigue, and the need of eating certain foods and drinks, participant 2 stated
that her body feels different as characterized by soreness, her mood shifts from one to
another, and felt dysmenorrhea-like pain in her lower abdominal area, while the
participant 3 answered that headache and abdominal pain as one of the symptoms she
usually feel during Premenstrual Syndrome, participant 4 stated that she usually get
Irritated, cravings, emotional, and pelvic cramps as one of the symptoms she usually
feel and experience during Premenstrual Syndrome, the participant 5 answered sore
breast and legs as one of the symptoms she usually feel. As stated by participant 6, she
experiences soreness of breasts as well as slight enlargement and pain on her hip and
genital area, participant 7 stated that she usually feels pain on her hips but mostly
headache and as for participant 8 claimed that she only experiences headache during
Premenstrual Syndrome.
Based on the Table 4, in which the effect of premenstrual syndrome in their school
performance the participant 1 claims that her school performance is affected due to
premenstrual syndrome. As claimed by participant 2, she mainly felt different from her
usual self. Changes in activity such as being active and participative in class differ
because of premenstrual syndrome, while participant 3 also claimed that sometimes
she can tolerate the pain but there are times that she can be easily distracted during
class hours and school activities. Participant 4 responded that there is time she is
bothered by it, but prefers not to mind it at all and participant 5 stated that her overall
performance is all by-product of her low energy level since it is influenced by
premenstrual syndrome. As a response by participant 6 that what she feels about her
body is incomprehensible. However, most of the time, she felt tired. On a brighter note,
she is still able to participate in classes but a bit different from her usual participation on
days without premenstrual syndrome and participant 7 stated that she’s unable to
tolerate the pain she experiencing and she prioritized more to take rest than to work on
her assignments, where participant 8 respond that she feels lethargic all the time.
In Table 5; in which the effects of premenstrual syndrome on the participant’s activities
of daily living, where participant 1 claims that premenstrual syndrome plays a great
factor when it comes to her physical and social activities as well as her mental status,
participant 2 said that her day goes on even though she does not feel herself. However,
if there are chances where she can rest, she grabs the opportunity and does so while
participant 3 claims that she prefers to stay on her bed and chooses not to do
something else. The participant 4 responded in which it affects how she interacts with
other people. According to participant 5, her activities of daily living are mostly interfered
due to her change of mood since it is a great factor on her performance, wherein
participant 6 stated that the symptoms mostly affect the way how she interacts with
people. Most of the time being misunderstood due to shifts of her mood and participant
7 claims that her activities of daily living are affected due to the big influence of her
mood, as for participant 8 state that she becomes moodier and gets easily irritated.
The result on Table 6 exhibits remedies in addressing premenstrual syndrome that out
of 8 participants responded to. Participant 1 does not have any remedies, while
participant 2 said that drinking warm water and utilizing hot compress aids in the relief of
her pain and soreness, participant 3 state that if pain not tolerable, she resorts to use
hot compress to relieve the pain while participant 4 claimed that she just preferred to
drink more water and do not mind the pain at all. As stated by participant 5, her
remedies that aids in relieving premenstrual syndrome’s symptoms are by drinking
gatorade and water and participant 6 claimed that sleeping is her only way of coping
with premenstrual syndrome’s symptoms, participant 7 said that her remedies are
increasing her water intake and buying gatorade and as for participant 8 claimed that
she only drinks a lot of water to relieve discomfort.
Table 7 shows the results on effects of the remedies on the participant’s school
performance and activities of daily living. Participant 1 and 2 claimed that they have no
remedies for premenstrual syndrome, participant 3 claimed that some of her remedies
helped her to be able to focus more on her school activities, while participant 4 stated
that with her remedies it helps to lessen the pain and she can focus more on her school
works. As stated by participant 5, her remedies are effective in terms of combating the
pain and soreness that she felt, participant 6 state that she can more focus on her
school activities and can stay well-rested and participant 7 stated that the effects of her
remedies such as drinking gatorade and increasing her water intake aids in relieving
soreness from her body while participant 8 claimed that with her remedy she can no
longer feel discomfort and more comfortable resting. In the majority result on the table
above, out of 8 participants. shows that some of them have a major serious problem on
their Premenstrual Syndrome symptoms and effects also on their proactive coping on
how they used some of their remedies to help them lessen the discomfort during
Premenstrual Syndrome.

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