A Community Based Cross-Sectional Study on Awareness Regarding Pubertal Changes and Reproductive Health among Adolescent Girls in an Urban Area of Belagavi
Journal Title: National Journal of Community Medicine - Year 2018, Vol 9, Issue 12
Abstract
Introduction: Most of the adoles-cents have little or no knowledge of the body’s impending physical and physiological changes. This study was planned to assess the knowledge regarding the pubertal changes and the knowledge, belief and treatment seeking practices re-garding reproductive health among adolescent girls. Methods: A community based cross-sectional study was conduct-ed over a period of one year among 625 adolescent girls (16-19 years) in an urban area of Belagavi. Systemat-ic sampling technique was used and data collected using a pre-tested questionnaire. Result: Knowledge regarding puber-tal changes among adolescent girls varied between fair to poor. Among 625 adolescent, 150 (24.0%) had in-fection related to reproductive tract, among them only 1 (0.7%) girl ap-proached a gynaecologist and 104 (69.3%) approached a qualified doc-tor for treatment. There was an in-crease in number of girls practicing cleaning of external genitalia who had correct knowledge regarding perineal hygiene predisposing to RTI as compared to girls who had incorrect knowledge which was sta-tistically significant (χ 2 = 65.0, df =1, p<0.01) Conclusion: Adolescent are not a homogenous group and the existing intra-cultural differences in our na-tion calls for the urgent need to identify the underlying cause and design an appropriate program to address them.
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Suhasini Kanyadi, Chandra Metgud
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