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Menstrual health and period poverty among young people who menstruate in the Barcelona metropolitan area (Spain): protocol of a mixed-methods study
INTRODUCTION: The importance of menstrual health has been historically neglected, mostly due to taboos and misconceptions around menstruation and androcentrism within health knowledge and health systems around the world. There has also been a lack of attention on ‘period poverty’, which refers to th...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7394147/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32727738 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-035914 |
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author | Medina-Perucha, Laura Jacques-Aviñó, Constanza Valls-Llobet, Carme Turbau-Valls, Rosa Pinzón, Diana Hernández, Lola Briales Canseco, Paula López-Jiménez, Tomàs Solana Lizarza, Enara Munrós Feliu, Jordina Berenguera, Anna |
author_facet | Medina-Perucha, Laura Jacques-Aviñó, Constanza Valls-Llobet, Carme Turbau-Valls, Rosa Pinzón, Diana Hernández, Lola Briales Canseco, Paula López-Jiménez, Tomàs Solana Lizarza, Enara Munrós Feliu, Jordina Berenguera, Anna |
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description | INTRODUCTION: The importance of menstrual health has been historically neglected, mostly due to taboos and misconceptions around menstruation and androcentrism within health knowledge and health systems around the world. There has also been a lack of attention on ‘period poverty’, which refers to the financial, social, cultural and political barriers to access menstrual products and education. The main aim of this research is to explore menstrual health and experiences of period poverty among young people who menstruate (YPM). METHODS AND ANALYSIS: This is a convergent mixed-methods study, which will combine a quantitative transversal study to identify the prevalence of period poverty among YPM (11–16 years old), and a qualitative study that will focus on exploring menstruation-related experiences of YPM and other groups (young people who do not menstruate (YNM); primary healthcare professionals; educators and policy-makers). The study will be conducted in the Barcelona metropolitan area between 2020 and 2021. Eighteen schools and 871 YPM will be recruited for the quantitative study. Sixty-five YPM will participate in the qualitative study. Forty-five YNM and 12 professionals will also be recruited to take part in the qualitative study. Socioeconomic and cultural diversity will be main vectors for recruitment, to ensure the findings are representative to the social and cultural context. Descriptive statistics will be performed for each variable to identify asymmetric distributions and differences among groups will be evaluated. Thematic analysis will be used for qualitative data analyses ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: Several ethical issues have been considered, especially as this study includes the participation of underage participants. The study has received ethical approval by the IDIAPJGol Research Ethics Committee (19/178 P). Research findings will be disseminated to key audiences, such as YPM, YNM, parents/legal tutors, health professionals, educators, youth (and other relevant) organisations, general community members, stakeholders and policy-makers, and academia. |
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spelling | pubmed-73941472020-08-11 Menstrual health and period poverty among young people who menstruate in the Barcelona metropolitan area (Spain): protocol of a mixed-methods study Medina-Perucha, Laura Jacques-Aviñó, Constanza Valls-Llobet, Carme Turbau-Valls, Rosa Pinzón, Diana Hernández, Lola Briales Canseco, Paula López-Jiménez, Tomàs Solana Lizarza, Enara Munrós Feliu, Jordina Berenguera, Anna BMJ Open Obstetrics and Gynaecology INTRODUCTION: The importance of menstrual health has been historically neglected, mostly due to taboos and misconceptions around menstruation and androcentrism within health knowledge and health systems around the world. There has also been a lack of attention on ‘period poverty’, which refers to the financial, social, cultural and political barriers to access menstrual products and education. The main aim of this research is to explore menstrual health and experiences of period poverty among young people who menstruate (YPM). METHODS AND ANALYSIS: This is a convergent mixed-methods study, which will combine a quantitative transversal study to identify the prevalence of period poverty among YPM (11–16 years old), and a qualitative study that will focus on exploring menstruation-related experiences of YPM and other groups (young people who do not menstruate (YNM); primary healthcare professionals; educators and policy-makers). The study will be conducted in the Barcelona metropolitan area between 2020 and 2021. Eighteen schools and 871 YPM will be recruited for the quantitative study. Sixty-five YPM will participate in the qualitative study. Forty-five YNM and 12 professionals will also be recruited to take part in the qualitative study. Socioeconomic and cultural diversity will be main vectors for recruitment, to ensure the findings are representative to the social and cultural context. Descriptive statistics will be performed for each variable to identify asymmetric distributions and differences among groups will be evaluated. Thematic analysis will be used for qualitative data analyses ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: Several ethical issues have been considered, especially as this study includes the participation of underage participants. The study has received ethical approval by the IDIAPJGol Research Ethics Committee (19/178 P). Research findings will be disseminated to key audiences, such as YPM, YNM, parents/legal tutors, health professionals, educators, youth (and other relevant) organisations, general community members, stakeholders and policy-makers, and academia. BMJ Publishing Group 2020-07-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7394147/ /pubmed/32727738 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-035914 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Obstetrics and Gynaecology Medina-Perucha, Laura Jacques-Aviñó, Constanza Valls-Llobet, Carme Turbau-Valls, Rosa Pinzón, Diana Hernández, Lola Briales Canseco, Paula López-Jiménez, Tomàs Solana Lizarza, Enara Munrós Feliu, Jordina Berenguera, Anna Menstrual health and period poverty among young people who menstruate in the Barcelona metropolitan area (Spain): protocol of a mixed-methods study |
title | Menstrual health and period poverty among young people who menstruate in the Barcelona metropolitan area (Spain): protocol of a mixed-methods study |
title_full | Menstrual health and period poverty among young people who menstruate in the Barcelona metropolitan area (Spain): protocol of a mixed-methods study |
title_fullStr | Menstrual health and period poverty among young people who menstruate in the Barcelona metropolitan area (Spain): protocol of a mixed-methods study |
title_full_unstemmed | Menstrual health and period poverty among young people who menstruate in the Barcelona metropolitan area (Spain): protocol of a mixed-methods study |
title_short | Menstrual health and period poverty among young people who menstruate in the Barcelona metropolitan area (Spain): protocol of a mixed-methods study |
title_sort | menstrual health and period poverty among young people who menstruate in the barcelona metropolitan area (spain): protocol of a mixed-methods study |
topic | Obstetrics and Gynaecology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7394147/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32727738 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-035914 |
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