Abhishek Singh|Vikas Gupta|Deepika Agrawal|Pooja Goyal|Mitasha Singh|Shveta Lukhmana
A cross-sectional study to investigate the impact of focused group discussion on menstrual hygiene among rural school girls of Southern Haryana, India
Government Medical College|Government Medical College|Santosh University|ESIC Hospital|ESIC Hospital|Vardhman Mahavir Medical College & Safdarjung Hospital
brbintroductionb menstruation natural phenomenon among women experience shedding blood 17 days every month usually starts age 11 14 years continues menopause 51 years age important maintain menstrual hygiene poor practices increase vulnerability reproductive urinary tract infections present study conducted aim investigate impact focused group discussion fgd compared didactic lectures dls menstrual hygiene knowledge practicesbrbmethodsb present crosssectional study conducted among 649 school girls january august 2019 using convenience sampling technique collecting baseline information using pretested predesigned standardized questionnaire participants control intervention groups exposed dls fgd respectively 1 month intervention questionnaire selfadministered participants tests performed 5 level significance using spss version 220brbresultsb baseline characteristics groups participants mean age mean age menarche mothers literacy status religion type family socioeconomic status comparable difference knowledge practice mean score participants control group pre postintervention highly statistically significant ipi 0001brbconclusionsb study reveals menstrual hygiene far satisfactory among school girls dls fgd improved menstrual hygiene knowledge practices among school girlsbr