en The effect of Training Premenstrual Coping Skills in Undergraduate Students in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Hamadan-Iran Nursing Orginal research <p><strong><em>Background:</em></strong> The premenstrual Syndrome is a collection of physical, mental and emotional symptoms which influence the quality of individual&rsquo;s life, so it is important to control and treat it.<br> <strong><em>Objectives:</em></strong> The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of Training Premenstrual Coping Skills in Undergraduate Students in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Hamadan-Iran.<br> <strong><em>Methods:</em></strong> This is a quasi-experimental study including a before and after design on 140 students of Nursing and Midwifery in Hamadan-Iran, which was conducted in 2015. 80 Eligible individuals were selected by convenience sampling method and randomly assigned to intervention and control groups. The research tool which we used was a questionnaire related to stress and coping strategies before and it was completed before and two months after the intervention in two groups. The students were trained the coping skills in the intervention group over five weeks, for 60 to 90 minutes.<br> <strong><em>Results</em></strong><strong>:</strong> The average age between girls in intervention group is 21.71&plusmn;3.21 and control group 21.94&plusmn;3.16 is years old. Based on the results of Wilcoxon test average tension score&rsquo;s comparison before Menstruation and also before and after intervention in each different statistical group is meaningful (p<0.01). Despite the reduction of tension score before Menstruation in the group of intervention difference, the comparison is not so meaningful (p=0.07).<br> <strong><em>Conclusion:</em></strong> Training the Coping skills had no significant impact on reducing premenstrual stress, but contributes to improving people&#39;s coping skills. It is recommended to hold premenstrual stress coping skills training sessions with a longer time to achieve valuable results.<br> &nbsp;<br> &nbsp;</p> coping strategies, stress, pre-menstrual syndrome, training 44 51 http://nmcjournal.zums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-564-2&slc_lang=en&sid=1 zahra masoumi zahramid2001@yahoo.com 10031947532846007774 10031947532846007774 No Assistant Professor, Mother and Child Care Research Center, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran arezoo shayan arezoo.shayan2012@yahoo.com 10031947532846007775 10031947532846007775 No Instructor, Dept. of Midwifery, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Mother and Child Care Research Center, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran fatemeh shobeiri fshobeiri@yahoo.com 10031947532846007776 10031947532846007776 No Professor, mother and Child care Research Center, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran godratollah roshanaei roshanaei@yahoo.com 10031947532846007777 10031947532846007777 No MSc. Dept. of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran marziyeh khanialamooti m.khanimid2014@gmail.com 10031947532846007778 10031947532846007778 Yes MSc. Dept. of Midwifery, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran