Study Farage et al. (2010): study US 2007
- Public
- Women, aged 18-55, before and after menstruation, USA, 200?
- Survey name
- Unnamed study
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 119
- Non Response
- 36%
- Assessment
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Multiple assesment methods
Interview: face-to-face & Questionnaire: paper (not directly reported, assumed by WDH team) Farage Quality of Life general questionnaire Participants received $75 for participation.
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Menstruation pad
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- Happiness assessed 7 days before menstruation (T1) and 7 days after (T2).
- Operationalization
- Within age groups, subjects were randomly assigned to either an intervention group or a control group. The intervention group was given the new brand of menstrual pads to use during their next period and the control group was asked to use their usual menstrual pads.
1: new pad (intervention)
0: usual pad (control)
Observed Relation with Happiness
T1: M = 3.03 M = 2,93 -.10
T2: M = 2.85 M = 2.93 +.08
-difference: -0.18 0.00
Question was not reported in publication, but provided on request by the author.
T1: M = 2.44 M = 2,39 -.05
T2: M = 2.29 M = 2.34 +.05
-difference: -0.15 -0.05
Similar non-difference across age categories.
Users of new pad report no difference in happiness in week after menstruation.
Question was not in publication, but provided on request by the author.