Goel Manish Kumar, Kundan Mittal
Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine .
Australas Med J. 2011;4(1):49-52. doi: 10.4066/AMJ.2011.534. Epub 2011 Jan 31.
Adolescence in females signifies the transition from girlhood to womanhood and is marked with the onset of menarche. Indian society is interwoven into a set of traditions, myths and misconceptions, especially regarding menstruation and related issues. The present study was conducted to assess knowledge and psycho-social behavior related to menstruation among adolescent girls in urban Haryana (state), India.
A total of 478 adolescent girls in the age group of 15 -19 years from three educational institutes of Rohtak city were selected randomly. It was a community-based, descriptive, cross-sectional questionnaire based study, and a pre-tested, pre-coded, closed ended questionnaire was used.
Feeling of sickness was the most common (in more than two-third of subjects) followed by irritability and emotional disturbances. More than 3/4(th) of the subjects did not worship during menstruation, 45% were not allowed in kitchen and nearly one-fourth followed dietary restrictions. More than 16% subjects thought menstruation to be a sign of onset of a disease and little more than 7 % thought it to be a curse. Girls preferred to discuss their menstruation related problems either with their mothers or with their friends.
Girls have inaccurate and partial information regarding menstruation. There is a need of early intervention in the area of adolescent psycho-social behavior during menstruation.
女性青春期标志着从少女时代向成年女性的转变，以月经初潮为标志。印度社会交织着一系列传统、神话和误解，尤其是关于月经及相关问题。本研究旨在评估印度哈里亚纳邦（州）城市地区青春期女孩与月经相关的知识和心理社会行为。
从罗塔克市三所教育机构中随机选取了478名年龄在15至19岁之间的青春期女孩。这是一项基于社区的、描述性的、横断面问卷调查研究，使用了经过预测试、预编码的封闭式问卷。
感到不适是最常见的（超过三分之二的受试者），其次是易怒和情绪波动。超过四分之三的受试者在月经期间不进行礼拜，45%不被允许进入厨房，近四分之一遵循饮食限制。超过16%的受试者认为月经是疾病发作的迹象，略多于7%的人认为这是一种诅咒。女孩们更喜欢与母亲或朋友讨论与月经相关的问题。
女孩们对月经的信息不准确且不完整。在青春期月经期间的心理社会行为领域需要早期干预。
