Daily menstrual symptom measures in women and men using an extended version of Moos's instrument

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Abstract
Symptoms of well-being and of distress were studied in normal men and women by daily administration of an extended version of Moos's menstrual distress questionnaire (MDQ), Form T. Measurements were collected for 35 consecutive days, and answers for men, women using oral contraception (OC), and women using no oral contraception (NOC) compared. It was shown that items asking after well-being play an important role in describing mood fluctuations during the menstrual cycle. OC women reported less water retention than NOC women did but, contrary to expectation, OC women reported more abdominal pain than NOC women. No average differences in intra-individual variation between NOC and OC women were found. On average it was only on the abdominal pain and water retention subscales that men showed less intra-individual variation than women.