Abstract :
Introduction: Start of menstruation among adolescent girls is a major concern,
which leads to stress and physical conditions.
Objectives: To find menstruation-related problems among the school-going
adolescent girls and to assess their health-seeking behavior in relation to these
problems.
Methodology: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted from September
2013 to December 2013 in a government higher secondary school of Pooth Khurd
village in North West Delhi, near rural residential health training center of Maulana
Azad Medical College. All adolescent girls who gave consent (196 girls) from class 7
to 10 of the selected government higher secondary school were included in the
study. A predesigned, pretested, semi-structured questionnaire was used. One of
the investigators explained the questions to the respondents. The data was entered
in MS-Excel and analyzed using SPSS version 17. Chi-square test and Fischer’s exact
test have been used for comparison between proportions. “P” value less than 0.05 is
considered to be statistically significant.
Keyword :
Menstrual pain, School girls, Rural.