A Study to Assess the Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Menstural Hygiene among Adolescent Girls and to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme - A Quasi Experimental Study
Abstract: The researchers conducted a quasi experimental study to evaluate the effectiveness of the structured teaching programme on menstrual hygiene and to assess the attitude and practice of the menstrual hygiene among adolescent schoolgirls in the selected schools of Varanasi India. The study was conducted among 150 randomly selected adolescent girls of the selected schools in Varanasi India. The levels of knowledge attitude and practice on menstrual hygiene were collected using a validated tool. After organizing and analyzing the data the study shows that 84.66 % had moderately adequate knowledge, 43.33 % of the samples had negative attitude and 24.66 % had poor practice on menstrual hygiene. The researchers evaluated the post test values after a structured teaching programme on menstrual hygiene which showed that the structured teaching programme had an positive impact in improving the knowledge of the adolescent girls about menstrual hygiene (t-value was 4.427 with a p-value of 0.0068 and the result is significant at p
Keywords: Menstrual Hygiene, Menstrual health, Adolescent Girls, KAP
How to Cite?: Johncy Rani R, Mohammed Rafi, Ankital Pal, Arfi Yamin, Bhawana Singh, "A Study to Assess the Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Menstural Hygiene among Adolescent Girls and to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme - A Quasi Experimental Study", Volume 10 Issue 1, January 2021, International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR), Pages: 860-863, https://www.ijsr.net/getabstract.php?paperid=SR21112155650, DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21275/SR21112155650