Study of premenstrual syndrome with academics of the medicine course

The Premenstrual Syndrome can be defined as being a picture polymorph, a set of disturbances characterized for somatic, affective, cognitive and mannering manifestations, intervening in significant way with the social, occupational and sexual functioning of the woman, being that one them factors more important to characterize the problem is not the presence of symptoms only physicists, emotional or of both the types and yes the cyclical repetition of these varied symptoms. A transversal study with 152 academics through of 18 and 38 years old was carried, students of the course of medicine of the College of Medicine of the University of Santo Amaro - FMSA, with the objective to study the prevalence of Premenstrual Syndrome (SPM) in the different years of the graduation of the medical course, observing the perception of these women in relation to the positive diagnosis for SPM. The collection instruments had been a half-structuralized questionnaire and validated other of Mortolla, filled for the proper citizens of the research that had assented to participate of the same one.  As result we notice that 17.8% of the interviewed ones had presented SPM, confirmed for additional questionnaire of Symptoms of SDPM (Premenstrual dysphoric disorder) for DSM - IV. The presence of friends, the practical one of physical activity, the amount of sleep hours, the index of corporal mass (IMC), the contraceptive medication and to the story of chronic illnesses had not been factors of interference for the SPM. It had greater incidence of the SPM in the academics of as year of the graduation and another quantitatively significant result it was in relation to the perception