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Effect of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge Regarding Menstrual Hygiene among Adolescent Girls in Selected Colleges, Bangalore - Menstrual hygiene is important to be practiced by the school girls to promote their health and prevent illness. Inadequate menstrual hygiene management is connected with the use of cloth, ashes and husk sand during menstruation, thereby it causes severe reproductive health problem1. According to World Health Organization (2015) there are about 74% of school girls had suffered with reproductive tract infection due to improper menstrual hygiene2. The poor menstrual hygienic practices also leads to several problems among school going which include dropped out from the school, inability to continue the education and reduction of self-esteem3. The objectives of the study were to assess the pre-test and post-test knowledge scores regarding menstrual hygiene among adolescent girls. To determine the effectiveness of STP regarding menstrual hygiene among adolescent girls4. The research approach was evaluative. 30 adolescent girls from Dayananda Sagar Institute of polytechnic were selected by non-probability purposive sampling technique5. Data collection tools were socio demographic variables to collect the baseline data and self-administered structured questionnaire to assess the level of knowledge of adolescent girls regarding menstrual hygiene6. The tool was validated by experts from respective fields and reliability was assessed by split half method. Knowledge scores of adolescent girls were assessed. Data analysis revealed that there was significant improvement in the level of knowledge of postnatal mothers after structured teaching programme at (P= 0.05)7. Keywords: Structured teaching programme, menstrual hygiene, adolescent girls.
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