Conclusions
Notwithstanding these limitations, the findings provide the foundation for future research and applications. The results provide an initial understanding of self-care behaviors and their associated factors among adolescent girls with dysmenorrhea. Knowledge of the interrelationships of the variables gives us a better understanding of thisphenomenon.Althoughfurtherqualitativestudywill be needed to support and illuminate these quantitative findings, this is one of the first studies to examine factors affecting self-care behaviors in adolescent girls. Consequently, this study will contribute to clinical application and result in a foundation for future intervention studies to identify important BCFs and promote self-care agency to achieve optimal self-care behaviors in adolescent girls with dysmenorrhea.