[ menstruation health status of high school girls in Zabol 2004]

ABSTRACT

Menstruation in young girls is a phenomen to detect real puberty and is important in adolescents as a natural right. This research has been done to determine the menstruation health situation of high school girls in Zabol -2004. This descriptive study was done on 331 high school girls of Zabol which were selected as cluster - random samples. Data collection was done through pre- test questionnaire and were analyzed considering the characteristics of variables and research objects .Validity and Reliability of questionnaire determined by content validity and test- retest. The statistical methods used are T - test and variance analysis. Results indicated that, the menarch age was 13.4 +/- 1.1 years. 6.3% of samples had permanent, and 9.6% had often PMS signs. The majority of samples [70.1%] had low menstruation health level. Most of them [54.4%] have been received their information from their mothers. Also there was a significant relation between menstruation health level and parents education level, but there were no relation between other factors and menstruation health level. Unfortuantely adolescent girls don't receive correct menstruation health informations that causes incorrect and unhealthy behavior during menstrual period. This determines the necessity of educating female students about the menstrual period and health precautionary measures including appropriate nutrition, exercise and physical activity, personal hygiene, etc