A multifaceted menstrual health intervention to improve psychosocial outcomes and menstrual practices among secondary schoolgirls in Northwest Tanzania: a pilot intervention study
The pilot intervention showed improvements in menstrual practices, psychosocial outcomes and school participation among schoolgirls but had no effect on school climate or self-reported urogenital symptoms. Stronger evidence from rigorously designed trials is needed to confirm the effectiveness of the intervention and scalability of these findings.
Authors
- Katherine A. Thomas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3436-0728)
- Elialilia S. Okello (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0507-1815)
- Jenny Renju (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5650-1902)
- Jennifer Rubli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1657-8133)
- Belén Torondel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6081-2156)
- Onike Mcharo
- Saidi Kapiga (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1753-4060)
- Philip Ayieko (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7147-7354)
- Giulia Greco (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5448-9521)
- John R. Luwayi
Institutions
- College of African Wildlife Management (TZ)
- London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (GB)
- Mwanza Intervention Trials Unit (TZ)
- National Institute for Medical Research (TZ)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Women s Health
- Published
- 2025-04-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905-025-03723-1
- Citations
- 4
- Primary Topic
- Menstrual Health and Disorders
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 7.51
Funders
- Government of the United Kingdom
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Medical Research Council