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- Title
Early Menarche and Psychopathological Symptoms in Young Chinese Women.
- Authors
Deng, Fang; Tao, Fang-Biao; Wan, Yu-Hui; Hao, Jia-Hu; Su, Pu-Yu; Cao, Yun-Xia
- Abstract
Objective: To evaluate the psychopathological symptoms, suicide, and self-harming behaviors among students with early, on-time, and late menarche in high school and college and the association of early menarche with these disorders. Methods: The design consisted of a cross-sectional study of 5597 high school students and 2768 college students. Menarche age, suboptimal mental health status, anxiety, depression, suicide, and self-harming behaviors were obtained by self-report questionnaire. Results: In high school students, all the disorders occurred at significantly higher frequency in those with early menarche than in those with on-time and late menarche. In college students, only suboptimal mental health status, depression, and suicidal ideation happened at significantly higher frequency in the early menarche group than in the other two groups. The college group had a lower frequency of all the disorders than the high school group for all three groups of girls, that is, with early, on-time, or late menarche. In a multivariate logistic regression model, early menarche persisted as a risk factor for all the disorders after other factors were controlled. Conclusions: Psychopathological symptoms, suicide, and self-harming behaviors are more common in early menarche students than in on-time and late menarche students. The effects of early menarche on the disorders might dissipate over time. Early menarche might serve as a predictor for the disorders in Chinese girls.
- Subjects
CHINA; AGE factors in disease; ANALYSIS of variance; CHI-squared test; CLUSTER analysis (Statistics); COLLEGE students; COMPARATIVE studies; CONFIDENCE intervals; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HIGH school students; MENARCHE; PROBABILITY theory; PATHOLOGICAL psychology; RESEARCH funding; STATISTICAL sampling; SELF-evaluation; SELF-mutilation; STUDENTS; SUICIDE; TIME; DATA analysis; MULTIPLE regression analysis
- Publication
Journal of Women's Health (15409996), 2011, Vol 20, Issue 2, p207
- ISSN
1540-9996
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1089/jwh.2010.2102