READ ME File For 'Dysmenorrhea and its Impact on the Health-Related Quality of Life of Adolescent Girls.
Dataset title' Dysmenorrhea and its Impact on the Health-Related Quality of Life of Adolescent Girls.
Dataset DOI: https://doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/D1532

ReadMe Author: YOUR NAME Polly Hardy-Johnson , University of Southampton 

This dataset supports the thesis ‘Dysmenorrhea and its Impact on the Health-Related Quality of Life of Adolescent Girls’ by Hardy-Johnson

This dataset contains:
1. Qualtiative Data Set: Adolescent's Interviews 
This data is within a folder titled 'Adolescent Interviews' which contains 19 anonymised transcripts from adolescents. The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of adolescents living with dysmenorrhea. 

2. Qualtiative Data Set: Mother's Interviews 
This data is within a folder titled 'Mother's Interviews' which contains 18 anonymised transcripts from mothers of adolescents experiencing dysmneorrhea. The aim of this study was to explore maternal perceptions of adolescent dysmenorrhea. 

3. Quantitative Survey Data 
A quantiative data set from a survey which collected data from 333 adolescent girls aged 13-18 years old. The file is titled 'Quantitative Data Set'. The data is presented in excel. This has been exported from SPSS. The data was exported with the values instead of codes. Therefore, the data set should be easy to read as the values assigned are simply answers to the survey questions. 
The aim of this survey study was to investigate the psychosocial predictors of qualtiy of life outcomes among adolescent girls. The following measures were used in this survey: 
A. Demographic questions including age, school year, and age at menarche. 
B. Fifteen items from the Menstrual Disorders of Teenagers Questionnaire (MDOT)(Parker et al., 2010) including the severity of menstrual pain, duration of pain and menses, regularity of menses, heaviness of menses, use of pain relief, other physyical/emptional accompanying symptoms, school absence and history of pelvic pathology (including endometriosis). 
C. Visual analogue pain scale measuring the severity of usual and most recent period pain. 
D. The Pediatric Quality of Life Version 4 (Varni, Seid, & Kurtin, 2001)
E. The State – Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAIC): The 40-item STAIC measured anxiety (Spielberger, 1983). 
F. Children’s Depression Inventory (CDI) - Short Version (Kovacs, 1978) 
G. The Children’s Somatization Inventory (CSI-24): The CSI-24 (Walker et al., 2009) 
H. Children's Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS-C) (Crombez et al., 2003)
I. The General Functioning domain of the Family Assessment Device (FAD-SF)(Epstein, Baldwin, & Bishop, 1983)

Qualitative data was collected between October 2014 and February 2016. 

Quantitative data was collected from May 2016 to May 2017. 

Licence: CC BY-NC

Date that the file was created: September, 2020