A quasi-experimental study to evaluate the knowledge on menstrual hygiene by structured teaching programme among adolescent girls in a selected government school at Jalandhar, Punjab, India

A quasi-experimental study was undertaken to assess the knowledge on menstrual hygiene by structured teaching programme among adolescent girls in selected government school at Jalandhar, Punjab, India. Objectives 1. To assess the knowledge on menstrual hygiene among adolescent girls. 2. To provide structured teaching programme on menstrual hygiene among adolescent girls. 3. To find out the association between the menstrual hygiene with selected sociodemographic variables among adolescent girls. Methodology: A quantitative research approach with Quasi experimental research design was used in this study. Research setting was selected government school, Jalandhar, Punjab, India. Total 60 samples were selected with Non-probability purposive sampling technique. Verbal consent was taken from the students (adolescent girls) in selected government school. Self-structured tool was used to assess the knowledge among the adolescent girls and structured teaching programme was conducted on menstrual hygiene. Results and Conclusion: The major findings of the study revealed that the analysis of comparison of pre-test and post-test level of knowledge on adolescent girls regarding menstrual hygiene depicted, pre-test result was 18.12+1.87 and post-test was 33.67+3.47. Hence, the findings revealed a significant improvement in the knowledge level after the intervention.