2016
DOI: 10.18203/2320-1770.ijrcog20164331
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Title of article: a cross sectional study on menstruation and menstrual hygiene among medical students of Valsad, Gujarat

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“…In contrast to the findings of the current study, some studies of women of reproductive age (Astuti et al, 2021;Budhathoki et al, 2018;Kumar et al, 2017;Patel, 2016;Varghese et al, 2015)medical students, and adolescent girls in India show that the majority women and girls used disposable sanitary napkins during menstruation instead of unhygienic rags and old clothes, tissue paper, or cotton/wool pieces. The possible reasons for this difference are that the women in those studies had good knowledge about MHM and financial capacity to buy sanitary napkins.…”
Section: Discussioncontrasting
confidence: 99%
“…In contrast to the findings of the current study, some studies of women of reproductive age (Astuti et al, 2021;Budhathoki et al, 2018;Kumar et al, 2017;Patel, 2016;Varghese et al, 2015)medical students, and adolescent girls in India show that the majority women and girls used disposable sanitary napkins during menstruation instead of unhygienic rags and old clothes, tissue paper, or cotton/wool pieces. The possible reasons for this difference are that the women in those studies had good knowledge about MHM and financial capacity to buy sanitary napkins.…”
Section: Discussioncontrasting
confidence: 99%
“…This result contrasts with the findings of some other studies, such as. the ones conducted in Nagpur (mean age at menarche 12.85 0.8 years) (Thakre et al, 2011), Egypt (mean age at menarche 12.49 1.2 years) (Abdelmoty et al, 2015), and Gujrat among medical female students (mean age at menarche 14.5 years) (Patel & Patel, 2016). Many girls (76.2%) in the rural campuses had more restrictions during menstruation than in the urban campuses (61.9%).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 95%
“…Similar findings from qualitative investigations claim that a sizable proportion of adolescent females are still uninformed of menstruation by the time they have their first period [ 22 , 25 ]. Despite the wider consistency, a few other studies have suggested that awareness levels before menarche may be higher in some locations with those unaware by menarche remaining as low as 3.6% [ 39 , 40 ].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%