Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Research Article

Effectiveness of Persian Golnar on Excessive Menstrual Bleeding in Women with Abnormal Uterine Bleeding, Compared to Tranexamic Acid: A Triple-Blind, Randomized Equivalence Trial

Table 3

Results of MQ score, PMDD score, and hemoglobin between intervention and control groups.


Variables	Golnar group (n = 39)	TA group (n = 37)	value^a
Variables	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD	value^a

MQ score
Pretreatment	64.23 ± 19.91	60.22 ± 17.40	0.355
Posttreatment	33.41 ± 17.18	46.67 ± 18.89	0.002
value^b	<0.001	<0.001
PMDD score
Pretreatment	22.79 ± 15.90	19.40 ± 13.58	0.322
Posttreatment	12.82 ± 11.64	15.73 ± 12.94	0.306
value	<0.001	<0.001
Hemoglobin (g/dl)
Pretreatment	11.76 ± 1.60	12.33 ± 1.43	0.111
Posttreatment	12.16 ± 1.54	12.28 ± 1.54	0.735
value	0.001	0.579

SD, standard deviation; TA, tranexamic acid; MQ, menorrhagia questionnaire; PMDD, premenstrual dysphoric disorder. ^a value is calculated by the independent t-test. ^b value is calculated by the paired t-test.