None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
Menstrual health conditions impact many facets of young people’s lives. Early intervention at adolescence is critical to reducing the lifelong personal and societal impacts of menstrual symptoms and conditions. However, problematically, young people do not know how to adequately manage menstrual health conditions. Movement and exercise have been found to be beneficial for managing menstrual health conditions. However young people often don’t recognize its benefits or believe it will aggravate symptoms further. This study is designed to test whether an online education intervention (Movement Matters) is acceptable for young people with menstrual health conditions.
Interventions
Movement Matters: The intervention will be an online, self-directed web-resource with a short video series outlining the benefits of movement and exercise for menstrual health conditions. It will build upon the already existing menstrual health web resource (Menstruation Matters https://menstruationmatters.com.au/) which was found to be acceptable in a pilot trial of young women. Instructional videos will also be provided on guided movements and exercises people with menstrual conditions may par
Movement Matters: The intervention will be an online, self-directed web-resource with a short video series outlining the benefits of movement and exercise for menstrual health conditions. It will build upon the already existing menstrual health web resource (Menstruation Matters https://menstruationmatters.com.au/) which was found to be acceptable in a pilot trial of young women. Instructional videos will also be provided on guided movements and exercises people with menstrual conditions may partake in. The video series will include: - The role of exercise for PCOS - The role of exercise for primary dysmenorrhoea - The role of graded exercise for endometriosis and chronic pelvic pain - The benefits of movement and exercise on mental wellbeing - The benefits of movement and exercise on cognition across the menstrual cycle - Lived experience perspectives of managing pelvic pain with movement - Movement sequences including Tai Chi, Yoga, and Pilates The online web-resource will take approximately 30 minutes to go through in its entirety and is self-paced. Participants will have access to the web-resource for one month. Engagement will be confirmed via website analytics, including the number of times the website was accessed, time spent on the web-resource, and whether resources were accessed/downloaded.
Sponsors
Western Sydney University
Study design
Allocation
Non-randomised trial
Intervention model
Single group
Primary purpose
Educational / counselling / training
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
16 Years to 25 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
1. Presumed female at birth. 2. Aged between 16-25 years. 3. Have a clinical diagnosis of at least one menstrual/pelvic health condition, including but not limited to primary dysmenorrhea, endometriosis, adenomyosis, PCOS, chronic (>6 months) pelvic pain 4. Live in Australia 5. Access to the internet 6. Ability to understand and comprehend English
Exclusion criteria
1. Pregnancy related pelvic pain 2. Unwilling or unable to participate in the trial 3. Unwilling or unable to provide informed consent
Outcome results
None listed