Abstract :
Introduction: There are about 350 million adolescents comprising about 22% of the population in
the countries of the South- East Asia Region (SEAR). Hygiene related practices of adolescent girls
have health impact in terms of increased susceptibility to reproductive tract infections (RTIs) which
affects productivity of young adolescents.
Objective: The study was conducted to find out the magnitude and awareness of reproductive tract
infections among adolescent girls in villages under the Comprehensive Rural Health Services
Project (CRHSP), Ballabgarh, Haryana.
Methodology: A community based cross sectional study was done among adolescent girls aged 14-
19 years. Using simple random sampling technique, 274 girls were interviewed using semi
structured interview schedule. Analysis was carried out in Stata version 11.
Keyword :
adolescent girls, rural India, reproductive tract infections (RTI), awareness