Determinants of menstrual hygiene among adolescent school girls in a rural area of Patna, Bihar, India: A cross-sectional study
Geetika Singh, Animesh Gupta, Nipendra Anand, Randhir Kumar · 2023
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Geetika Singh, Animesh Gupta, Nipendra Anand, and Randhir Kumar survey menstrual hygiene among schoolgirls in rural Bihar, India. Many girls start their periods with patchy or wrong information, wrapped in taboos that can harm health. The team interviewed three hundred girls aged thirteen to seventeen at four schools near Patna.
About six in ten girls scored well on knowledge of periods and the body. Only half scored well on hygiene practices. Girls in government schools and girls in nuclear families were far more likely to fall short on practices. The authors say hygiene teaching belongs in the school health curriculum. They call for awareness programs shaped to what local girls will accept and use.
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| CREATOR | Geetika Singh, Animesh Gupta, Nipendra Anand, Randhir Kumar |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 31 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |