Effect of Health Education Program on Knowledge and Practices about Menstrual Hygiene among Adolescents Girls at Orphanage Home

El-Mowafy, Reda Ibrahim; Moussa, Maha Moussa Mohamed; El-Ezaby, Hanan Hassan

doi:10.9790/1959-03614855

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“…Their understanding has been signicanty improved in the postintervention process. Such results were consistent with other studies conducted in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and India [10][11][12]. In our study, knowledge on cause of menstruation was poor among participants i.e.…”

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Effectiveness of Information Education and Communication on Menstrual Hygiene among Adolescent School Girls of Jumla District

Dahal¹,

Acharya

2019

J Nobel Med Coll

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Background: Menstruation and menstrual practices are darkened by taboos and different societal as well as cultural restrictions, which results in lack of adequate knowledge in adolescents regarding the scientific facts of menstruation as well as healthy menstrual hygiene practices. The objective of the study was to find out the effectiveness of information, education and communication (IEC) on menstrual hygiene among adolescents of Jumla district. Materials and Methods: Quasi-experimental research design was used for the study. The samples were taken from government school, Shree Janta Secondary Technical school of Chandannath municipality of Jumla District. A total of 112 adolescents girls studying in class 9 and class 10 were selected by using non probability total enumerative sampling technique. Data was collected by using self administered questionnaire. Data analysis was done by descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: The study revealed that 8.9% of respondents had high knowledge during pre test which was significantly increased to 60.7% during post test and 27.7% of respondents had good practice during pre test which was significantly increased to 51.8% during post test. Conclusion: The present study concluded that adolescents lacked appropriate knowledge and practices about menstruation in the pre test which significantly increased in post test. Thus, structured health education program can significantly bring positive change in healthy menstrual hygiene practices.

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Effectiveness of Information Education and Communication on Menstrual Hygiene among Adolescent School Girls of Jumla District

Dahal¹,

Acharya

2019

J Nobel Med Coll

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“…[25] Regarding the medical and obstetric data, the age of menstruation, the present study findings revealed that the mean age of Damietta group was 13.4 ± 1.4 while the mean age of menstruation of Port Said was 11.1 ± 1.2. These findings are in agreement with several previous studies [27][28][29][30] in which the authors mentioned that mostly sixty-seven percent of the girls were well prepared and aware about menstruation.…”

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Effect of intervention management care program on improving quality of life outcome among mastectomy women with diabetic: A comparative study

Moussa

Farahat²,

El-Shabory³

2019

JNEP

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Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the effect of intervention management care program on improving quality of life outcome among mastectomy women with diabetic.Subjects and Methods: Design: A quasi-experimental deign was used. Setting: It was selected from two settings Port Said oncology outpatient clinic and Damietta oncology outpatient clinic. Sampling: A purposive sample of mastectomy diagnosed with diabetic. The total sample was 50 women. They were 20 women from Port Said and 30 mastectomy women from Damietta Tools: The study data were collected by using three tools: The first tool-A women Structure interviewing questionnaire Sheet-its consisted of three parts: part one, demographic characteristics; part two, past and present medical history, complications related to diabetes and cancer and obstetrics characteristics; part three, knowledge about diabetes and mastectomy. The second tool-self-reported practices. The third tool-quality of life scale.Results: The study sample age ranged between 35 to more than 60 years with a mean of (50.3 ±8.6 and 48.3 ± 9.4) respectively in Damietta and Port-Said. There was statistically significant positive but strong correlate on among the three variables the strongest being between total scores knowledge and practices (r = 0.466) and strongest between knowledge and quality of life (r = 0.367) especially psychological aspects.Conclusions: The present study concluded that there is a marked gap between knowledge, practice and quality of life among the mastectomy women with diabetic before implement the program. There was an improvement in mastectomy women of all groups' knowledge and practice after the program. Also there were positive changes in quality of life in psychological, spiritual, emotional and social aspects. Furthermore, there were improvement in knowledge practice and positive change in quality of life after the implementation of the program of Damietta group more than port Said group.

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“…These do not include indexes from three studies which collapsed across an unknown set of items [20,43,46]. Further, in two studies, authors included attending school or university, and participating in religious practices during menstruation [16], and food restrictions and exercise [18] as menstrual practices. These fit poorly with those reported as hygiene behaviours in other studies and are not included in Table 5.…”

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confidence: 99%

Measurement in the study of menstrual health and hygiene: A systematic review and audit

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Effect of Health Education Program on Knowledge and Practices about Menstrual Hygiene among Adolescents Girls at Orphanage Home

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Cited by 21 publications

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Effectiveness of Information Education and Communication on Menstrual Hygiene among Adolescent School Girls of Jumla District

Effectiveness of Information Education and Communication on Menstrual Hygiene among Adolescent School Girls of Jumla District

Effect of intervention management care program on improving quality of life outcome among mastectomy women with diabetic: A comparative study

Measurement in the study of menstrual health and hygiene: A systematic review and audit

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