A study to assess knowledge on Premenstrual Syndrome among adolescent girls at selected junior colleges, Maharashtra in a view to prepare information booklet

Abstract

Background: Premenstrual syndrome includes a bunch of physical and emotional problems that many girls and women get right before their periods begin each month. Premenstrual syndrome has both behavioral and physiological symptoms The present study was done to assess knowledge on Premenstrual Syndrome among adolescent girls at selected junior colleges. Objectives: 1) To assess the knowledge regarding premenstrual syndrome among adolescent girls of selected schools of Maharashtra state2) To find out the association between knowledge on premenstrual syndrome with selected demographic variables3) To prepare information booklet on Premenstrual syndrome. Methodology: The design used was Non experimental descriptive research design with quantitative approach. Stratified simple random sampling technique was used to select sample. The sample size was 30 adolescent girls between age 16-20 years. The tools used was structured questionnaire for socio-demographic and knowledge regarding premenstrual syndrome. Result: The findings of present study were that out of 30 girls 03 (10%) respondent had poor knowledge, 26 (86.67%) respondent had good knowledge and 1 (3.33%) respondent had excellent knowledge. Association between knowledge and demographic variables type of family, mother’s education, age at menarche, source of information, and place of living, attended sex education classes were found to be non significant association with knowledge score. Mother’s education and type of family got significant association with knowledge score.