Nida Jawabreh
The Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence and Coping Behaviors among Nurses in the Intensive Care Unit
SAGE open nursing
adolescent women face many restrictions become much severe menstruation india millions adolescent girls drop school every year due menstruationrelated problems restrictions despite extensive research paucity literature observed level knowledge attitude practices adolescent girls regarding menstruation hence proceeded undertake present study deeper understanding menstrual hygiene management adolescents describe menstrual hygiene management among adolescent school girls examine association menstrual hygiene management school absenteeism menstruation adolescent school girls conducted schoolbased crosssectional analytical study urban area north india study population comprised adolescent school girls high schools urban area 95 confidence interval 5 margin error sample size calculated 369 however even larger sample size 600 actually studied probability proportional size sampling approach followed based number adolescent girls school classsection participants selected stratified proportionate sampling method ethical approval obtained ethical committee district director education urban area study conducted commencement study confidentiality information collected ensured data collected quantitative nature using pretested selfadministered questionnaire consisting openended closeended questions data checked completeness coded entered microsoft excel 2021 spreadsheet subsequently data imported ibm statistical package social sciences spss statistics windows version 230 armonk ny ibm corp data analysis standard statistical methods utilized data analysis mean age standard deviation sd study participants 1368 129 mean age sd menarche 1329 096 based overall menstrual hygiene management score 377 6283 study participants engaged good menstrual hygiene management 223 3717 engaged poor menstrual hygiene management mean score sd 780 043 compared aged 1719 years aged 1013 years 036 95 ci 017075 decreased odds good menstrual hygiene aged 1416 years 029 95 ci 014059 decreased odds good menstrual hygiene adjusted odds ratios 032 95 ci 019065 025 95 ci 012041 respectively 600 study participants 229 3817 reported school absenteeism least last 1 year menstruation mean standard deviation duration school absenteeism 24 078 days per menstrual cycle commonest reason menstruationrelated school absenteeism pain wherein 105 4585 study participants reported reason study observed twothirds study participants engaged good menstrual hygiene practices 40 reported menstrualrelated school absenteeism study also found evidence age school girls associated menstrual hygiene management practices recommend research impact menstruation management academic performance adolescent school girls efforts also required develop capacity teachers teach menstrual hygiene education