Menstrual hygiene- A hidden and neglected issue: A cross sectional study among school going adolescent girls of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh

Volume : VII, Issue : VII, July - 2018

Dr. Vivek Nagar, Dr. Kriti Yadav, Dr. Arun Mitra, Dr. Akanksha Tomar, Dr. Shweta Sharma, Dr. Pankaj Prasad

Introduction – The need of the hour for girls is to have the information, education and an enabling environment to deal with menstruation related

issues. Present study was to assess the current knowledge, attitude and practice of school adolescents on menstrual hygiene in government school

of Bhopal.

Methodology– Current study was a cross–sectional study carried out from July to October 2015 at a government school in urban locality among

10th and 11th class girl students of Bhopal.

Result– A total of 215 study students were enrolled for the study. Around 18.1% of the participants were having good level of knowledge, 52.1%

have positive attitude and 57.6% participants had positive practice.

Discussion and conclusion– The overall knowledge was inadequate but attitude and practice were satisfactory, so we need to increase the

knowledge level. This study tries to give an insight to the hidden and unsolved issue of adolescent girls.