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TNNMC Journal of Pediatric Nursing
Year : 2023, Volume : 11, Issue : 2
First page : ( 12) Last page : ( 15)
Print ISSN : 2322-0279. Online ISSN : 2456-6497.

Effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge and attitude regarding menstrual hygiene among early adolescent girls

Dominic Vigimol1, Divya T. L2

1Lecturer, Annammal College of Nursing, Kanyakumari

2Associate Professor, Annammal College of Nursing, Kanyakumari

Online published on 27 October, 2023.

Abstract

Menstruation is generally considered unclean in Indian society. Effective menstrual hygiene is vital to health, wellbeing, dignity, empowerment, mobility and productivity of woman and girls. The quantitative approach and pre experimental research design (One group-pretest posttest design) was used for this study. 60 early adolescent girls were selected using Simple Random Sampling technique. The Instrument used for the study was Structured Knowledge Questionnaire and 5 Point Likert scale. Paired ‘t’ test was used to evaluate pretest and posttest level of knowledge and attitude on menstrual hygiene. Chi square test was used to find out the association between the posttest Knowledge and Attitude on Menstrual hygiene with their selected demographic variables. The findings revealed that, there was a significant association between the level of attitude and selected demographic variables.

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Keywords

Knowledge, Attitude, Menstruation.

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