Monthly premenstrual syndrome (PMS) lasts for 6 days up until menopause. During women’s reproductive years they experience an estimated amount of severe symptoms for 3000 days. The present study is aimed to assess the prevalence and knowledge on PMS among adolescents and effectiveness of teaching tools in improving the knowledge of PMS among adolescents using systematic review method. Prevalence and knowledge of PMS were systematically reviewed. A search was conducted using keywords premenstrual syndrome, PMS in adolescents/teenagers in reliable English articles. The initial search 874 articles on PubMed were available. In all 18 articles from the year 2008-2019 that were reviewed has shown there are more than 50% of adolescent girls suffering from PMS in each study and pertaining to the knowledge result shows that girls have a lack/little knowledge on what PMS is, and during an intervention of any sort results show that there was an improvement in the knowledge of the girls after the intervention was implemented, displaying the effectiveness of educational programs regarding PMS and how it increase knowledge regarding PMS. PMS is highly prevalent among female students. Every adolescent girl must be aware of premenstrual syndrome and its effect and how it can be managed, also health education programs regarding PMS and other menstrual problems are very important and secondary schools should include them in the school curriculum to reduce the prevalence of such problems and more teaching methods to be used by future researchers in regards to PMS.
In this study, a video-based teaching program was used to assess the knowledge of young mothers in identifying developmental milestones. The purpose of this study was (1) to assess the effectiveness of video-based program, (2) to assess the knowledge of young mothers in identifying developmental milestones. Methods. Self-structured tool on knowledge regarding developmental milestones was used in this study. Each mother participated in the questionnaire. In the final position, the questionnaire score was obtained and the results was evaluated using inferential and descriptive statistics. Results. A mean value of 4.94 pre-test and a mean value of 11.17 post-test were obtained for all the subjects. There was a strong correlation between the pre-test and post-test measurements (df=. 6.23). There was a difference between the pre/posttest St. Deviation of 2.37 and 1.45, with t value of 22.70. The results from the analysis shows that after the administration of the VBTP which was conducted online, there was a significant increase in the knowledge regarding DM among young mothers.
The objective of this review is to evaluate the prevalence of anemia and factors associated with Anemia among pregnant women in India. A search was conducted through electronic databases PubMed, google scholar and l Medline, non-electronic databases were also search for articles published between 2017 to 2021. PRISMA guided the reporting of items. All articles were included in qualitative analysis. A total of nine (9) studies (N=7,29,485) conducted among pregnant women in India were included in this review. The overall prevalence of anemia ranged from 23.16% to 81.8%, mild anemia reported in three studies ranged from 35.0% to 60.6%, moderate anemia from 8.0% to 49.5% and severe anemia ranged from 1.4% to 6.9% only. Education status of both wife and husband, maternal age, occupation, income, residence, dietary habits, parity, child spacing, attendance of ANC services and interventions nutrition programs were the main factors associated with the hemoglobin status of the pregnant women. The prevalence of anemia was high among the study participants. Sociodemographic factors were associated with Hb levels of the women. Efforts should be made to encourage women to attend antenatal services (ANC) and nutritional programs should also cover pregnant women.
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