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Asha Vinod Bhat*

*Lecturer, Department of  OBG Nursing, KLE University’s Institute of Nursing Sciences, Nehru Nagar, Belagavi, Karnataka-600099, India

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Article citation: Bhat AV. A study to evaluate the effectiveness of PTP on selected menstrual irregularities and the remedial measures practiced among early adolescent girls in selected high schools at Belagavi, Karnataka, India. J Pharm Biomed Sci. 2015 September;05(09) Suppl 02: S19-S23. Available at www.jpbms.info

ABSTRACT: A study to evaluate the effectiveness of PTP on selected menstrual irregularities and the remedial measures practiced among early adolescent girls in selected high schools at Belagavi, Karnataka, India.
Background and objectives: Adolescence in girls has been recognized as a special period which signifies the transition from girlhood to womanhood. Menstrual disorders include menstrual irregularity, menorrhagia, dysmenorrhoea, and other related symptoms. Among these, dysmenorrhoea is the most common, being reported in 60 to 90% of adolescents. The nurse being the part of health team must educate the adolescent girls regarding menstrual disorders and show the correct pathway to prevent the menstrual disorders. Thus planned teaching programme will help the adolescent girls to get awareness about menstrual irregularities and remedial measures
Objectives of the study were to assess the knowledge regarding menstrual irregularities experienced and remedial measures practiced by the early adolescent girls, prepare and administer PTP and find out the association between pre test knowledge scores and demographic variables.
Methods: One group pre test post design was adopted. The data was collected by using self administered questionnaire from the 60 early adolescent girls. The sampling technique used for the study was non-probability sampling technique [purposive].
Results: The result revealed that in pre test majority of the adolescent girls 45 (75%) had average knowledge and 6 (10%) had poor knowledge whereas; in post test 14 (23.3%) of adolescent girls had good knowledge and 40 (66.6%) had average knowledge about menstrual irregularities and its remedial measures.
There was an association between pre test knowledge scores and demographic variables such us religion, mother’s educational qualification and source of information where as there was no association between the demographic variables age, type of family female siblings, menstrual problems, and remedial measures.

KEYWORDS: Menstrual irregularities; remedial measures; adolescent girls; planned teaching programme; knowledge.

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Competing interest / Conflict of interest: The author(s) have no competing interests for financial support, publication of this research, patents and royalties through this collaborative research. All authors were equally involved in discussed research work. There is no financial conflict with the subject matter discussed in the manuscript.


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