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Effects of Aerobic Program on the Severity of Dysmenorrhea using WaLIDD Score

. Tehreem Anis, Sobia Hasan, Nisha Lohana, Iqra Salahuddin & Hina Saeed


Abstract

Dysmenorrhea without any root cause may lead to decreased working ability, decreased work and study concentration and absentisem. A study conducted thus, aims to find out effects of aerobic program of 30 minute duration on the severity of dysmenorrhea using WaLIDD score questionnaire. An experimental study thus was conducted on 35 female students from the Dewan University who fell into the criteria and who were willing to participate were included in the study. The participants were provided with the aerobic program involving different sets of exercises for the duration of 30 minutes. The severity was tested using WaLLID score questionnaire prior to implementation of program to select the participants and also to find out the desired severity to include in the study (mild and moderate were included). The aerobic program was implemented and severity was tested after 8th week. The mean age of the participants involved in the study was 21 years old, the WaLLID score shows that after performing aerobic exercise 13 Participants reported mild dysmenorrhea and 22 participants reported moderate dysmenorrhea that cumulatively showed the reduction of complaints regarding pain (dysmenorrhea) after performing the 30 minutes of aerobic exercise.

This study provides significant results that 30 minutes of aerobic exercise is helpful in reduction of pain intensity having beneficial effects in reducing the severity of dysmenorrhea.

 

Keywords: Aerobic Exercises, Dysmenorrhea, WaLLID score

 

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