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“It always gets pushed aside:” Qualitative perspectives on puberty and menstruation education in U.S.A. schools

Adolescent girls in the U.S.A. often lack sufficient education on pubertal and menstrual health topics. This educational gap may be growing given the current decline in American elementary and middle schools' delivery of sexual health education. Furthermore, little is known about the actual sco...

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Autores principales: Schmitt, Margaret L., Gruer, Caitlin, Hagstrom, Christine, Ekua Adenu-Mensah, Nana, Nowara, Azure, Keeley, Katie, Sommer, Marni
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9635341/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36339773
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frph.2022.1018217
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author Schmitt, Margaret L.
Gruer, Caitlin
Hagstrom, Christine
Ekua Adenu-Mensah, Nana
Nowara, Azure
Keeley, Katie
Sommer, Marni
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description Adolescent girls in the U.S.A. often lack sufficient education on pubertal and menstrual health topics. This educational gap may be growing given the current decline in American elementary and middle schools' delivery of sexual health education. Furthermore, little is known about the actual scope and quality of existing menstruation and puberty education in U.S.A. schools. This paper provides insights into some of the challenges with the delivery of menstruation and puberty education in schools. Qualitative and participatory research methodologies were utilized with Black and Latina girls ages 15–19 and adults working with youth in three U.S.A. cities (Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City), exploring experiences of menstruation within school and family contexts. Findings revealed tension between school responsibility and family authority in providing menstruation and puberty education in schools, school- and teacher-related delivery challenges, and inadequate and disengaging menstruation and puberty content. Further research is needed on the effectiveness and best practices for providing this education in schools, including improved understanding on student and parent preferences, delivery mediums and the scope of content.
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spelling pubmed-96353412022-11-05 “It always gets pushed aside:” Qualitative perspectives on puberty and menstruation education in U.S.A. schools Schmitt, Margaret L. Gruer, Caitlin Hagstrom, Christine Ekua Adenu-Mensah, Nana Nowara, Azure Keeley, Katie Sommer, Marni Front Reprod Health Reproductive Health Adolescent girls in the U.S.A. often lack sufficient education on pubertal and menstrual health topics. This educational gap may be growing given the current decline in American elementary and middle schools' delivery of sexual health education. Furthermore, little is known about the actual scope and quality of existing menstruation and puberty education in U.S.A. schools. This paper provides insights into some of the challenges with the delivery of menstruation and puberty education in schools. Qualitative and participatory research methodologies were utilized with Black and Latina girls ages 15–19 and adults working with youth in three U.S.A. cities (Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City), exploring experiences of menstruation within school and family contexts. Findings revealed tension between school responsibility and family authority in providing menstruation and puberty education in schools, school- and teacher-related delivery challenges, and inadequate and disengaging menstruation and puberty content. Further research is needed on the effectiveness and best practices for providing this education in schools, including improved understanding on student and parent preferences, delivery mediums and the scope of content. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-10-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9635341/ /pubmed/36339773 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frph.2022.1018217 Text en © 2022 Schmitt, Gruer, Hagstrom, Ekua Adenu-Mensah, Nowara, Keeley and Sommer. 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) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . 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.
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Keeley, Katie
Sommer, Marni
“It always gets pushed aside:” Qualitative perspectives on puberty and menstruation education in U.S.A. schools
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title_sort “it always gets pushed aside:” qualitative perspectives on puberty and menstruation education in u.s.a. schools
topic Reproductive Health
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