Knowledge on Menstrual Hygiene and Health Status of Residential and Non-Residential School Girls: Socio-Economic Status (Ses)
Journal Title: RA Journal Of Applied Research - Year 2016, Vol 2, Issue 5
Abstract
The study was conducted to know the influence of socioeconomic status on knowledge on menstrual hygiene and health status of 60 residential and 60 non-residential school age girls from rural and urban areas of Dharwadtaluk during 2014-2015. The tools used were self- structured questionnaire to assess the knowledge and practices regarding menstrual hygiene and SocioEconomic Status Scale developed by Agarwal et al.,(2005) and the PGI Health Questionnaire, N-1 developedby Verma et al.(2005).The results indicated that there was significant difference but highly significant association was found between the rural and urban school girls in terms of knowledge on menstrual hygiene . A majority of girls belonged to lower middle class of SES from both rural and urban residential and non-residential schools. There was no significant difference but still there was significant association found between the SES of rural and urban residential and non-residential school age girls. A majority of rural residential school girl had high knowledge on menstrual hygiene belonged to lower middle class. A similar trend was observed in non-residential rural girls. However, there was relationship between SES and knowledge level in rural and urban residential school age girls. There was significant relationship found between the health status and SES among rural residential and non-residential school girls and in urban, non-residential school girls.
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Krutika Chanda
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