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Abstract
Yesterday’s girl is today’s adolescent and tomorrow’s mother. Self care practices as well as menstrual hygiene are basic requirements for promoting a satisfied life and personal esteem in a woman. Although adolescence is a healthy period of life, many are often less informed, less experienced, and less comfortable in accessing to reproductive health information and services. This leads to culmination in repression of feelings which can cause intense mental stress and seek health advice from quacks and persons having inadequate knowledge . This may result in incorrect and unhealthy behavior during their menstrual period. Poor personal hygiene and unsafe sanitary conditions result in the girls facing many gynecological problems.
The aim of this study is to: identify adolescent girls’ self-care practices during menstruation
MATERIALS AND METHOD
Settings: - A cluster multistage probability sampling technique was followed to choose 16 secondary schools from 8 zones of Alexandria that was determined. from each of four previously selected zones four secondary schools was randomly selected, totally 16, Appendix( 1).
Subjects: - A stratified random sampling technique was used in choosing the study subjects. Students in each school was divided into two strata: first and second academic year. A simple random sample of 12 students was chosen, making total of 24 students from each school , totally 384.
Tools of the study:-In order to collect the necessary data, two tools were used:
Tool I: Basic data Questionnaire:
This tool was developed by the researcher based on relevant literature to assess the Basic data Questionnaire of the studied subjects It was included three parts as follows:
- Part one: Socio-demographic data such as age, academic year ,residence….etc
- Part two: health profile such as history of medical disease, height, weight, BMI .
- Part three: Menstrual history such as: age at menarche, interval, duration, rhythm of menses, complains, site of pain, onset and severity.
Tool II: Students’ Self care practices during menstruation :
It was developed by the researcher to asses self care practices during menstruation. It was included two parts: universal self care practices and health deviation self care practices.
Part one: Universal Self care practices was compromised of 25 items as follows: nutrition ( 3 items) , activities & exercises ( 5 items) , menstrual hygiene ( 17 items).