Age at menarche, reactions to menarche and attitudes towards menstruation among Mexican adolescent girls

Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 61-66

  Marván, Ma Luisa ^a   Alcalá Herrera, Verónica ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD VERACRUZANA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Attitudes towards menstruation; Early menarche; Menarche; Puberty

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT ATTITUDE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; ATTITUDE TO CHANGE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EARLY MATURER; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATE MATURER; MENARCHE; MENSTRUATION; MISCELLANEOUS NAMED GROUPS; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

ATTITUDES TOWARDS MENSTRUATION; EARLY MENARCHE; MENARCHE; PUBERTY;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ANXIETY; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEAR; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MENARCHE; MENSTRUATION; MEXICO; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84897642798     PISSN: 10833188     EISSN: 18734332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpag.2013.06.021     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Uskul A.K. Women's menarche stories from a multicultural sample. Soc Sci Med 2004, 59:667.
2. Marván M.L., Cortés Iniestra S. Menstruación: qué es y qué no es (Menstruation: what it is and what it is not) 2008, 97-109. Pax, México.
3. Thomas F., Renaud F., Benefice E., et al. International variability of ages at menarche and menopause: patterns and main determinants. Hum Biol 2001, 73:271.
4. Méndez Estrada R., Valencia M.E., Meléndez Rorres J.M. Edad de la menarquia en adolescentes del noroeste de México. Arch Lationam Nutr 2006, 56:160. [Article in Spanish].
5. Jean-Thelus R.T., Wilkinson A.V., Spitz M.R., et al. Psychosocial risk and correlates of early menarche in Mexican-American girls. Am J Epidemiol 2011, 173:1203.
6. Mendle J., Turkheimer E., D'Onofrio B.M., et al. Family structure and age at menarche a children-of-twins approach. Dev Psychol 2006, 42:533.
7. Mendle J., Leve L.D., Van Ryzin M., et al. Associations between early life stress, child maltreatment, and pubertal development among girls in foster care. J Res Adolesc 2011, 21:871.
8. Allison C.M., Hyde J. Early menarche: Confluence of biological and contextual factors. Sex Roles 2013, 68:55.
9. Bayat P., Ghanbari A., Khazaei M., et al. Age at menarche and related factors in girls of urban areas of Markazi (central) Province of Iran. Int J Morphol 2012, 30:15.
10. Currie C., Ahluwalia N., Godeau E., et al. Is obesity at individual and national level associated with lower age at menarche? Evidence from 34 countries in the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children Study. J Adolesc Health 2012, 50:621.
11. Black S.R., Klein D.N. Early menarcheal age and risk for later depressive symptomatology: the role of childhood depressive symptoms. J Youth Adolesc 2012, 41:1142.
12. Deng F., Tao F.B., Wan Y.H., et al. Early menarche and psychopathological symptoms in young Chinese women. J Womens Health (Larchmt) 2011, 20:207.
13. Joinson C., Heron J., Lewis G., et al. Timing of menarche and depressive symptoms in adolescent girls from a UK cohort. Br J Psychiatry 2011, 198:17.
14. Copeland W., Shanahan L., Miller S., et al. Outcomes of early pubertal timing in young women: a prospective population-based study. Am J Psychiatry 2010, 167:1218.
15. Boden J.M., Fergusson D.M., Horwood L.J. Age of menarche and psychosocial outcomes in a New Zealand birth cohort. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2011, 50:132.
16. Kaltiala-Heino R., Rimpelä M., Rissanen A., et al. Early puberty and early sexual activity are associated with bulimic-type eating pathology in middle adolescence. J Adolesc Health 2001, 28:346.
17. Gaudineau A., Ehlinger V., Vayssiere C., et al. Factors associated with early menarche: results from the French Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study. BMC Public Health 2010, 10:175.
18. Richards M.A., Meghan A.R. Age at menarche is associated with divergent alcohol use patterns in early adolescence and early adulthood. J Adolesc 2011, 34:1065.
19. Stice E., Presnell K., Bearman S.K. Relation of early menarche to depression, eating disorders, substance abuse, and comorbid psychopathology among adolescent girls. Dev Psychol 2001, 37:608.
20. Al-Sahab B., Ardern C.L., Hamadeh M.J., et al. Age at menarche and current substance use among Canadian adolescent girls: results of a cross-sectional study. BMC Public Health 2012, 12:195.
21. Natsuaki M.N., Leve L.D., Mendle J. Going through the rites of passage: timing and transition of menarche, childhood sexual abuse, and anxiety symptoms in girls. J Youth Adolesc 2011, 40:1357.
22. Stubbs M.L., Rierdan J., Koff E. Developmental differences in menstrual attitudes. J Early Adolesc 1989, 9:480.
23. Ruble D.N., Brooks-Gunn J. The experience of menarche. Child Dev 1982, 53:1557.
24. Ali T.S., Rizvi S.N. Menstrual knowledge and practices of female adolescent in urban Karachi. Pakistan. J Adolesc 2009, 33:531.
25. Chang Y.T., Chen Y.C., Hayter M., et al. Menstrual and menarche experience among pubescent female students in Taiwan: implications for health education and promotion practice. J Clin Nurs 2009, 18:2040.
26. Liu H.L., Chen K.H., Peng N.H. Cultural practices relating to menarche and menstruation among adolescent girls in Taiwan-qualitative investigation. J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol 2012, 25:43.
27. Marván M.L., Morales C., Cortes-Iniestra S. Emotional reactions to menarche among Mexican women of different generations. Sex Roles 2006, 54:323.
28. Ozdemir F., Nazik E., Pasinlioǧlu T. Determination of the motherly reactions to adolescents' experience of menarche. J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol 2010, 23:153.
29. Ozdemir F., Nazik E., Pasinlioǧlu T. Determination of the motherly reactions to adolescents' experience of menarche. II. J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol 2011, 24:21.
30. Tang C.S., Yeung D.Y., Lee A.M. Psychosocial correlates of emotional responses to menarche among Chinese adolescent girls. J Adolesc Health 2003, 33:193.
31. Lee J. Bodies at menarche: Stories of shame, concealment, and sexual maturation. Sex Roles 2009, 60:615.
32. Rierdan J., Koff E. Premenarcheal predictors of the experience of menarche: a prospective study. J Adolesc Health 1990, 11:404.
33. Rembeck G.I., Gunnarsson R.K. Improving pre- and postmenarcheal 12-year-old girls' attitudes toward menstruation. Health Care Women Int 2004, 25:680.
34. Marván M.L., Molina-Abolnik M. Mexican adolescents' experience of menarche and attitudes toward menstruation: role of communication between mothers and daughters. J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol 2012, 25:358.
35. Estanislau M.C., Hardy E., Hebling E.M. Menarche among Brazilian women: memories of experiences. Midwifery 2011, 27:203.
36. McPherson M.E., Korfine L. Menstruation across time: menarche, menstrual attitudes, experiences, and behaviors. Womens Health Issues 2004, 14:193.
37. Secretaría de Educación Pública en el Distrito Federal. Estadísticas 2011-2012. Available at:. Accessed August 5, 2013. http://www.sep.gob.mx/wb/sep1/sep1_Estadisticas.
38. Morse J.M., Kieren D., Bottorff J. The Adolescent Menstrual Attitude Questionnaire, Part I: Scale construction. Health Care Women Int 1993, 14:39.
39. Marván M.L., Molina M. Validación en México de un cuestionario de actitudes hacia la menstruación dirigido a adolescentes posmenarcas (Validation of a questionnaire of attitudes toward menstruation in post-menarcheal adolescents in Mexico). Psicol Salud 2002, 12:173.
40. Ge X., Natsuaki M.N. In search of explanations for early pubertal timing effects of developmental psychopathology. Curr Dir Psychol Sci 2009, 18:327.
41. Cortés-Iniestra S., Marván M.L., Claudia L. Análisis de la publicidad de productos relacionados con la menstruación en revistas dirigidas a adolescentes ( Analysis of menstrual products advertisement in teenagers' magazines). Psicol Salud 2004, 14:113.
42. Houppert K. The Course: Confronting the Last Unmentionable Taboo 1999, 49-137. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Menstruation, New York.
43. Johnston-Robledo I., Joan C. The menstrual mark: Menstruation as social stigma. Sex Roles 2013, 68:9.
44. Chang Y.T., Hayter M., Wu S.C. A systematic review and meta-ethnography ofthe qualitative literature: experiences of the menarche. J Clin Nurs 2010, 19:447.