Prevalence of Good Menstrual Hygiene Practices among Adolescent Girls in a Rural Area Kancheepuram District
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.37506/ijphrd.v11i3.1441Keywords:
Adolescence, Good menstrual hygiene practice and Absorbent.Abstract
Adolescence is a transitional phase of childhood to becoming adults and encompasses several challenges
with respect to physical, emotional, social and mental changes.2 Education regarding healthy adolescence
is crucial and of them all, understanding and practice of good menstrual .Therefore, it is important to assess
the status of the menstrual hygiene practices among the adolescent girls particularly in undeveloped areas
to address the lacunae, which helps to emphasize safe hygienic practices during menstruation.2 A cross
sectional study was conducted in field practicearea, RHTC CHRI Kancheepuram. School going menarche
attained adolescent girls in the age group from 10 to 19 years had been included .A total of 436 adolescent
girls had been included using the multistage random sampling method and analysis was done using IBM
SPSS 21 version. The mean age of the study population was 14.48 with standard deviation of 1.77.It has
been evident that awareness of menstruation before menarche was only 14.7% and the first source of
information about menstruation was found to be by their mothers followed by teachers.77% of adolescent
girls were using sanitary napkin and 23% of them were using cloth. In this study only 15% had good
menstrual hygiene practice; there should be a need to educate the girls about menstruation, its importance
and hygiene maintenance, to enable them to lead a healthy reproductive life in future.