Abstract:

Background: Primary dysmenorrhea has different levels of negative impacts on the physical, psychological and social functions of women, leading to short-term absences from study or work. Despite the high prevalence of primary dysmenorrhea among adolescents and young women worldwide, Primary dysmenorrhea was often poorly treated and even disregarded by high health professionals, pain researchers and the women themselves.

Methodology: The study was a hospital based retrospective cross sectional study, it was conducted for a period of one month from October 2020 through November 2020 at Sekou Toure Referral Hospital (SRRH), Mwanza, specifically at the Reproductive and child health (RCH) clinic included all parous women visiting the Reproductive and Child Health Clinic at Sekou Toure Referral Hospital, Mwanza who have given birth at least once.

Results: A total number of 295 participants were enrolled in the study. The mean age was 30.87 years. Majority of participants came from Mjimwema followed by Igoma. Most of mothers delivered through SVD 79.7%. Only 62.0% of participants their symptoms improved after delivery and the rest 38.0% continues with symptoms even after delivery.

Outcome of the study: The primary dysmenorrhea is still present among large group of women based on the findings from this study we recommend that, further education should be provided especially to teenagers group on the good way of alleviating pain caused by dysmenorrhea. Further studies should be done to determine the dosage used by women during alleviating dysmenorrhea symptoms.