A Qualitative Content Analysis of Rural and Urban School Students' Menstruation-Related Questions in Bangladesh.

ABSTRACT: Nearly half of Bangladeshi girls reach menarche without knowledge of menstruation and many fear seeking support due to pervasive menstrual stigma. We aimed to explore the types of menstruation-related information and support adolescent female and male students want but may be uncomfortable verbalising. We installed a locked box in four school classrooms in rural and urban Bangladesh as part of a menstrual hygiene management pilot intervention between August 2017 and April 2018. Trained teachers provided puberty education to female and male students in classes 5-10 (ages 10-17 years) and encouraged students to submit questions anonymously to the boxes if they did not want to ask aloud. We conducted a content analysis of the 374 menstruation-related questions from a total of 834 submissions.

SUBMITTER: Mehjabeen D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9408576 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature