Impact Of Educational Programme Regarding Menstrual Hygiene Among Adolescent Girls In Adams Girls Inter Colleges, Almora, Uttarakhand

Abstract

The goal of the study is to improve the understanding of Adolescent girls on menstrual hygiene, a quasi-experimental design was employed. A total of 60 Adolescent girls were chosen by purposive sampling from Adams Girls Inter College in Almora, Uttarakhand. The 60 Adolescent girls participated in this study. After employing a structured questionnaire for the pretest, an educational program was followed for one week, and then a posttest was administered. Using descriptive and inferential statistics, the data was examined. The findings showed that the mean posttest   knowledge score (24.42) was higher than the mean pretest knowledge score (12.91). Thus the results had validated the educational programme desired. There is no association between mean knowledge score of pretest and selected variables like age, types of family, and residential area, previous knowledge. The study's findings showed that Adolescent girls received information about menstrual hygiene and had good levels of competence in this area.