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Parents or School Health Trainers, which of them is Appropriate for Menstrual Health Education?
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this community-based participatory research was to compare different training sources for adolescents’ menstrual health education. METHODS: From 15 middle schools in Tehran, through quota random sampling, 1823 female students were selected proportionally and allocated rand...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3445278/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23024851 |
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author | Djalalinia, Shirin Tehrani, Fahimeh Ramezani Afzali, Hossein Malek Hejazi, Farzaneh Peykari, Niloofar |
author_facet | Djalalinia, Shirin Tehrani, Fahimeh Ramezani Afzali, Hossein Malek Hejazi, Farzaneh Peykari, Niloofar |
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description | OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this community-based participatory research was to compare different training sources for adolescents’ menstrual health education. METHODS: From 15 middle schools in Tehran, through quota random sampling, 1823 female students were selected proportionally and allocated randomly to three groups (parent trained, schools’ health trainers trained, and control). Following a two-year training program, the adolescents’ menstrual health was compared. RESULTS: In the present study, the school health trainers trained group showed a better feeling for menarche, compared to the two other groups (P < 0.001). The need for adolescent health training was emphasized by 82% of the participants; they also believed that the appropriate age for such empowerment courses was about 12 years. In the school health trainers trained group, the offered age was significantly lower than in other groups (P < 0.001). The adolescents trained by the school health trainers had a better practice of habits related to menstrual and hygiene practices, like having a bath during menstruation and the use of sanitary pads or cotton, compared to their counterpart groups (P > 0.05). CONCLUSION: It is suggested that school-based health training leads to better menstrual health promotion and healthy puberty transition, and school health trainers play a key role in this regard. |
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spelling | pubmed-34452782012-09-28 Parents or School Health Trainers, which of them is Appropriate for Menstrual Health Education? Djalalinia, Shirin Tehrani, Fahimeh Ramezani Afzali, Hossein Malek Hejazi, Farzaneh Peykari, Niloofar Int J Prev Med Original Article OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this community-based participatory research was to compare different training sources for adolescents’ menstrual health education. METHODS: From 15 middle schools in Tehran, through quota random sampling, 1823 female students were selected proportionally and allocated randomly to three groups (parent trained, schools’ health trainers trained, and control). Following a two-year training program, the adolescents’ menstrual health was compared. RESULTS: In the present study, the school health trainers trained group showed a better feeling for menarche, compared to the two other groups (P < 0.001). The need for adolescent health training was emphasized by 82% of the participants; they also believed that the appropriate age for such empowerment courses was about 12 years. In the school health trainers trained group, the offered age was significantly lower than in other groups (P < 0.001). The adolescents trained by the school health trainers had a better practice of habits related to menstrual and hygiene practices, like having a bath during menstruation and the use of sanitary pads or cotton, compared to their counterpart groups (P > 0.05). CONCLUSION: It is suggested that school-based health training leads to better menstrual health promotion and healthy puberty transition, and school health trainers play a key role in this regard. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012-09 /pmc/articles/PMC3445278/ /pubmed/23024851 Text en Copyright: © International Journal of Preventive Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Djalalinia, Shirin Tehrani, Fahimeh Ramezani Afzali, Hossein Malek Hejazi, Farzaneh Peykari, Niloofar Parents or School Health Trainers, which of them is Appropriate for Menstrual Health Education? |
title | Parents or School Health Trainers, which of them is Appropriate for Menstrual Health Education? |
title_full | Parents or School Health Trainers, which of them is Appropriate for Menstrual Health Education? |
title_fullStr | Parents or School Health Trainers, which of them is Appropriate for Menstrual Health Education? |
title_full_unstemmed | Parents or School Health Trainers, which of them is Appropriate for Menstrual Health Education? |
title_short | Parents or School Health Trainers, which of them is Appropriate for Menstrual Health Education? |
title_sort | parents or school health trainers, which of them is appropriate for menstrual health education? |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3445278/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23024851 |
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