Premenstrual symptoms are commonly affecting 80% of women. Among the youngsters the premenstrual symptoms commonly affects the daily activities and frequent absenteeism among the college students. So the investigator was interested in providing intervention to reduce the symptoms. Written consent was obtained from the samples and PMS Diary was distributed and instructed to maintain for a month. Among the 200 population, 50 samples with PMS were selected by lottery method. Progressive muscle relaxation were given to the samples for a duration of 30 minutes every day for 5 days in a week for a duration of 2 months. Again PMS diary was distributed to all the samples and monitored for a month. The outcome of this study were, there is significant reduction in the severity of premenstrual symptoms. In the psychological symptoms 66% of samples severely affected with PMS but after the intervention, it was reduced to 68% moderately and 32% of the samples with mild symptoms. In the pain symptoms 56% were severely affected and 44% were moderately affected, but after the intervention, 82% of the samples had moderate symptoms and 8% of them affected mildly. Hence there was significant difference in the PMS score before and after the intervention at p< 0.05 level. This study proved the effectiveness of PMR technique in the reduction of PMS symptoms.
