International Journal of Nursing Education

Abstract

Objectives: To assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of adolescence girls on menstrual hygiene. To find the association between knowledge score, attitude score, practice score and selected variables. In addition, to evaluate the effectiveness of planned teaching program on adolescence's knowledge, attitudes and practices.

Materials and method: An intervention study done among 60 adolescence girls by using instrument demographic performa, knowledge questionnaire, attitude questionnaire and practice questionnaire.

Results: Majority of sample 51.7% are in age group 15year, majority 78.5% are Hindu, 41.7% girls got the information about menstruation from their mother and 50% of their menarche was in 13 years. In the pre test 18.33% girls had good knowledge about menstrual hygiene, 60.0% had fair knowledge and 21.67% of them had poor knowledge on menstrual hygiene. After the health education on menstrual hygiene 43.33% had good knowledge on menstrual hygiene, 48.33% had fair knowledge and 8.34% of them had poor knowledge on the topic. In pre test majority 96.67% of the total girls had favorable attitude towards the menstrual hygiene and 3.33% had negative attitude about menstrual hygiene and in the post test after the health education 100% of them had favorable attitude on menstrual hygiene. Among the sample size majority 86.7% of them dry their used clothes in the sun during their menstruation but in the post test of the same sample majority 96.66% of them dry their used cloths sin the sun during their menstruation, all of them use soap and water to wash their used clothes during their menstruation.

Conclusion: In the pre test 18.33% girls had good knowledge about menstrual hygiene, 60.0% had fair knowledge and 21.67% of them had poor knowledge on menstrual hygiene but in post test 43.33% had good knowledge on menstrual hygiene, 48.33% had fair knowledge and 8.34% of them had poor knowledge on the topic.

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