Effectiveness of school-based program on knowledge regarding menstrual health and hygiene among adolescent girls

Menstrual hygiene is very important during menstruation but due to lack of knowledge many girls are not following proper hygiene and in future they will suffer from many illness and cervical cancers are rising nowadays due to lack of hygiene. If they follow proper menstrual hygiene then this problem will be reduced. Objectives are to assess the pre-test level of knowledge regarding menstrual health and hygiene, to evaluate the effectiveness of school-based program on knowledge regarding menstrual hygiene and also to find out the association between post-test knowledge scores with thesis selected demographical variables. In this study, pre-experimental pretest post-test design was adopted and 60 girls were selected. The findings showed that, in pretest with mean score 11.41(47.34%) with standard division 4.39 and in a post-test with a mean score of 13.75 (57.29%) standard division 2.7. The obtain ‘t’ value 3.33 is greater than the table value at the degree of freedom 59 at 0.01 level of significance. Hence, education is effective in improving the adolescent’s knowledge about menstrual health and hygiene.