A Pre-Experimental Study to Asess the Effectiveness of Planned Teaching Program on Knowledge Regarding Menstrual Hygiene with Giving Booklet Among Adolescent Girls (13-16years) in Selected Govt. Girls Sr. Sec. School of Kaithal, Haryana.

Adolescence in girls has been recognized as a turbulent period which signifies the transition from girlhood to womanhood and considered as a land mark of female puberty. This transitional period is marked with the onset of “MENARCHE ‟ which is generally accepted by young girls, as a sign of maturity. Girls may start their menstrual period as early as 9 years of age and as late as 16 years old. The average age a girl begins menstruating is 12. Since it is too early for the girls they would not have prepared physically and mentally for the menstruation. When the girls attain menarche, they feel shy to even disclose to their mothers. There will be few chances to maintain hygiene during menstruation since the matter is not discussed in the nuclear families. Even though girl’s information through media it cannot be applied practically unless it is explained. [4] Menstruation is generally considered as unclean leading to isolation of the menstruating girls and restrictions imposed on them in the family. These practices have reinforced negative attitude toward menstruation in girls. The Centre for social research in 1990 has reported restrictions in daily activities not being allowed to take bath, change clothes, comb hair, enter holy places. apart from their dietary restrictions (taboo on consumption of food like rice, curd milk, lassie, onion sugarcane, etc.) [5] Adolescent girls constitute vulnerable group particularly in India where female child is neglected one. Menstruation is still regarded as something unclean (or) dirty in Indian society. The reaction to menstruation depends upon awareness & knowledge about the subject. [6] The social stigma attached to menstruation causes many girls and women to carry out dangerous hygiene practices. Lacking a platform to share menstrual hygiene problems, girls and women often suffer from discomfort and infection, avoiding urination during menstruation and using any kind of cloth available old (or) unwashed as an absorbent. These kinds of practices can lead to problems like infection, boils and itching but still girls are not visiting medical practitioners. [7]

 

OBJECTIVES:

Ø  To assess the knowledge of high school adolescent girls regarding menstrual hygiene.

Ø  To evaluate the effectiveness of planned teaching program on knowledge of menstrual   hygiene among high school adolescent girls.

Ø  To determine the knowledge of adolescent girls regarding menstrual hygiene with their demographic variables.

 

HYPOTHESIS:

Ø  H1: The mean post- test knowledge level score will be significantly higher than the mean pre- test knowledge level.

Ø  H2: There will be significant association between the pre- test knowledge scores with its selected socio-demographic variables regarding menstrual hygiene.

 

ASSUMPTION:             

Ø  Adolescent girls may have some knowledge regarding menstrual hygiene.

 

DELIMITATION:

Ø  This study is de-limited to 13-16years Adolescent girls who are studying 10th and 12th standards.

Ø  This study is de-limited to 80% Adolescent girls who are studying 8th and 9th standards.

 

REVIEW OF LITERATURE:

Ø  Literature related to menstruation Attitude.

Ø  Literature related to menstrual hygiene knowledge.

Ø  Literature related to menstrual hygiene awareness.

 

METHODOLOGY:

•                  Research approach: Qualitative approach 

•                  Research design: Pre experimental one group pre-test post-test design will be adopted for this study.

•                  Variables:

•                  Independent variables: Planned teaching programme.

•                  Dependent variables: Knowledge of adolescent girls regarding menstruation hygiene.

•                  Setting of the study: Govt. Sr Sec. girls’ School of Kaithal, Haryana.

•                  Population: Adolescent girls who are studying in Govt.sr sec. Girls school of Kaithal, Haryana.

•                  Sample: Adolescent girls who fulfil the inclusion criteria will be consider as a sample.

•                  Sample size: Sample size consists of 40 adolescent girls studying at govt.sr sec. Girls school of Kaithal, Haryana.

•                  Sampling Technique: Non random sampling technique had been used for selection of the subject.

 

Table 1: Frequency and Percentage Distribution of Adolescent girls Pre-test Level of Knowledge on Menstrual Hygiene. (N = 40)

 

The above table reveals that majority of the samples 23 (57.50%) were having average level of knowledge regarding menstrual hygiene followed by Samples who had good level of knowledge was 16 (40.00 %) and only 1(2.50%) sample were having poor level of knowledge.

 

Table 2:  Frequency and Percentage Distribution of Adolescent girls Post-test Level of Knowledge on Menstrual Hygiene.

 

The above table reveals that majority of the samples 30 (75.00%) were having good level of knowledge regarding menstrual hygiene followed by Samples who had average level of knowledge was 10 (25.00 %) and None of the samples were having poor level of knowledge.

Table 3: Association between pre-test and post-test score on Menstrual Hygiene among adolescent girls.

 

The above table shows the association of pre-test and post-test scores on menstrual hygiene among adolescent girls.

 

The paired’ test value is -1. 6861.The value is extremely significant at 0.05 level of significance.

 

Table 4: Level of association between knowledge scores and selected socio demographic variables.

NS = Not Significant. Level of Significance = 0.05

 

The above table describes the level of association between pre-test level of knowledge and selected demographic variable the null hypothesis can be stated as follows.