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Safe menstrual hygiene management practice and associated factors among female adolescent students at high schools in central Ethiopia: A mixed–method study
BACKGROUND: Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) is a much-neglected issue in developing countries, including Ethiopia. Menstruating women and girls are forced into isolation, prevented from movement, dietary restrictions, and can be prevented from participating in daily routine activities. Furthermor...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9360541/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35958860 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.913262 |
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author | Deriba, Berhanu Senbeta Garedew, Girma Gemeda, Diriba Geleta, Tinsae Abeya Jemal, Kemal Bala, Elias Teferi Mekuria, Mulugeta Nigussie, Tadesse Dirirsa, Dejene Edosa Legesse, Elsabeth |
author_facet | Deriba, Berhanu Senbeta Garedew, Girma Gemeda, Diriba Geleta, Tinsae Abeya Jemal, Kemal Bala, Elias Teferi Mekuria, Mulugeta Nigussie, Tadesse Dirirsa, Dejene Edosa Legesse, Elsabeth |
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description | BACKGROUND: Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) is a much-neglected issue in developing countries, including Ethiopia. Menstruating women and girls are forced into isolation, prevented from movement, dietary restrictions, and can be prevented from participating in daily routine activities. Furthermore, the way almost all previous studies conducted in Ethiopia measured the practice of MHM did not meet standard definition of safe MHM. This study aimed to assess safe management of menstrual hygiene practice and associated factors among female adolescent students in public high schools in central Ethiopia. METHODS: A mixed-methods approach was employed in this study. Systematic random sampling technique was used to select 846 study participants. The collected data were entered through EPI INFO version 7 and exported to SPSS version 23 for cleaning and analysis. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis were performed to identify the association between MHM and independent variables. Finally, AOR, 95% CI, and p-value < 0.05 were considered statistically significant. The qualitative data was analyzed by ATLAS.ti in order to extract the main themes and categories. Direct quotations were presented with a thick description of the findings. RESULTS: The safe management of menstrual hygiene was 28.20%. Living with parents (AOR = 2.51, 95% CI:1.11–5.68), living with relatives (AOR = 7.41, 95% CI:2.55–21.54), having a merchant mother (AOR = 1.81, 95% CI:1.14–2.9), having a mother who has private work (AOR = 4.56, 95% CI:1.31–5.90), having a farmer father (AOR = 1.53, 95% CI:1.1–2.31), rural resident (AOR = 1.61, 95% CI: 1.17–2.21) and realizing the absence of container for storing sanitary napkins in the toilet of the school latrine (AOR = 1.44, 95% CI: 1.1–0.94) were factors associated with MHM. Findings from a qualitative study were discussed under four themes to explore barriers to menstrual hygiene management, and three themes emerged as enablers to menstrual hygiene management. CONCLUSIONS: The safe management of menstrual hygiene was low among adolescent girls. People with whom adolescent girls live, the occupational status of mother and father, residence, the availability of a container to dispose of sanitary napkins in school toilets were factors associated with menstrual hygiene management. Behavioral change communications must be provided to female students about menstrual hygiene. |
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spelling | pubmed-93605412022-08-10 Safe menstrual hygiene management practice and associated factors among female adolescent students at high schools in central Ethiopia: A mixed–method study Deriba, Berhanu Senbeta Garedew, Girma Gemeda, Diriba Geleta, Tinsae Abeya Jemal, Kemal Bala, Elias Teferi Mekuria, Mulugeta Nigussie, Tadesse Dirirsa, Dejene Edosa Legesse, Elsabeth Front Public Health Public Health BACKGROUND: Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) is a much-neglected issue in developing countries, including Ethiopia. Menstruating women and girls are forced into isolation, prevented from movement, dietary restrictions, and can be prevented from participating in daily routine activities. Furthermore, the way almost all previous studies conducted in Ethiopia measured the practice of MHM did not meet standard definition of safe MHM. This study aimed to assess safe management of menstrual hygiene practice and associated factors among female adolescent students in public high schools in central Ethiopia. METHODS: A mixed-methods approach was employed in this study. Systematic random sampling technique was used to select 846 study participants. The collected data were entered through EPI INFO version 7 and exported to SPSS version 23 for cleaning and analysis. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis were performed to identify the association between MHM and independent variables. Finally, AOR, 95% CI, and p-value < 0.05 were considered statistically significant. The qualitative data was analyzed by ATLAS.ti in order to extract the main themes and categories. Direct quotations were presented with a thick description of the findings. RESULTS: The safe management of menstrual hygiene was 28.20%. Living with parents (AOR = 2.51, 95% CI:1.11–5.68), living with relatives (AOR = 7.41, 95% CI:2.55–21.54), having a merchant mother (AOR = 1.81, 95% CI:1.14–2.9), having a mother who has private work (AOR = 4.56, 95% CI:1.31–5.90), having a farmer father (AOR = 1.53, 95% CI:1.1–2.31), rural resident (AOR = 1.61, 95% CI: 1.17–2.21) and realizing the absence of container for storing sanitary napkins in the toilet of the school latrine (AOR = 1.44, 95% CI: 1.1–0.94) were factors associated with MHM. Findings from a qualitative study were discussed under four themes to explore barriers to menstrual hygiene management, and three themes emerged as enablers to menstrual hygiene management. CONCLUSIONS: The safe management of menstrual hygiene was low among adolescent girls. People with whom adolescent girls live, the occupational status of mother and father, residence, the availability of a container to dispose of sanitary napkins in school toilets were factors associated with menstrual hygiene management. Behavioral change communications must be provided to female students about menstrual hygiene. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-07-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9360541/ /pubmed/35958860 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.913262 Text en Copyright © 2022 Deriba, Garedew, Gemeda, Geleta, Jemal, Bala, Mekuria, Nigussie, Dirirsa and Legesse. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Deriba, Berhanu Senbeta Garedew, Girma Gemeda, Diriba Geleta, Tinsae Abeya Jemal, Kemal Bala, Elias Teferi Mekuria, Mulugeta Nigussie, Tadesse Dirirsa, Dejene Edosa Legesse, Elsabeth Safe menstrual hygiene management practice and associated factors among female adolescent students at high schools in central Ethiopia: A mixed–method study |
title | Safe menstrual hygiene management practice and associated factors among female adolescent students at high schools in central Ethiopia: A mixed–method study |
title_full | Safe menstrual hygiene management practice and associated factors among female adolescent students at high schools in central Ethiopia: A mixed–method study |
title_fullStr | Safe menstrual hygiene management practice and associated factors among female adolescent students at high schools in central Ethiopia: A mixed–method study |
title_full_unstemmed | Safe menstrual hygiene management practice and associated factors among female adolescent students at high schools in central Ethiopia: A mixed–method study |
title_short | Safe menstrual hygiene management practice and associated factors among female adolescent students at high schools in central Ethiopia: A mixed–method study |
title_sort | safe menstrual hygiene management practice and associated factors among female adolescent students at high schools in central ethiopia: a mixed–method study |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9360541/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35958860 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.913262 |
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