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Item Intergenerational Changes in Menstrual Taboos among School Going Adolescent Girls of Bouddha, Kathmandu(Department of Sociology, 2022) Acharya, ShantaNot availableItem Knowledge & Perceptions of Adolescent Girls in Reproductive Health (A Case Study of Gandhi Adarsa Higher Secondary School,Kathmandu)(Department of Population Studies, 2012) Acharya, Thakur NathThis study is based on the primary data collected from field survey including 131 sampled adolescents’ girls students aged 15-19 years of higher secondary school. Among of them 111 girls were selected by systematic random sampling and 20 were selected for the purpose of focus group discussion. Reproductive health is vital component of overall health, which is considered as a greatsubject of concern all over the world. Reproductive health is an area in which adolescents are particularly vulnerable. Due to the interplay of biological, socio cultural and traditional barrier to the information and inaccessibility of the services with regard to the sexual and reproductive health, they have to faced various vulnerable situation such as early pregnancy,unsafe abortion, risk of STDs including HIV/AIDS, adolescents maternal mortality etc. In this context, this study tries to analyse the knowledge and perception of adolescents on reproductive health. From this study, it is observed the level of their knowledge and perception on reproductive health and its education is quite satisfactory. They also well informed in this issues such as STDs including HIV/AIDS routes of transmission and its preventing measures, unsafe abortion, maternity care and infertility. The study also deals with the variation among students in terms of age.Item Knowledge and Practice regarding Dysmenorrhea A Study among the Adolescent Girls of Higher Secondary School, Pokhara, Nepal(Faculty of Sociology, 2015) Koirala, DayaDysmenorrhoea is one of the most distressing problems associated with menstruation among adolescences which affects the daily routine and hinders the quality of life. Its prevalence varies greatly in different populations, ethnic groups, and socio-economic background and also due to hereditary and sedentary life styles among adolescence aswell.A cross-sectional study was conducted todetermine theknowledge and practice on dysmenorrhea among the adolescence girls of Barahi Higher Secondary School.The major objective of this study was to assess the knowledge and practice regarding dysmenorrhea among adolescent girls. The study area was Barahi Higher Secondary School. Study design was cross sectional descriptive study.Face to face interview was applied to collect data among 104 respondents. Data collection technique were interview schedule and case study. Findings are presented using simple tables, charts and bar diagram. Demographic findings of the study revealed that most of the respondents 62.5 percent were of age 15-17 years where mean age was 15.5(Minimum age: 12 Years,Maximum age: 19 Years). Majority of the respondents were from grade 10. 86.5percent of the respondents were Hindu and most of the respondents were belonging to Brahmin/Chettri by ethnicity. Most of respondents 76.9 percent were living in nuclear family. The study showed that prevalence of the dysmenorrhoea was 75.96 percent.The mean age of menarche was 12.5 years with a range of 10 to 15 years. Most of the respondents were kept separated from their family during their first menstruation. 52.8 percent had experience for excessive bleeding and mostly in 40.1 percent of respondents’ duration of bleeding days lasting for 5 days.Majority of the respondents 81.7 percent use sanitary pad at the time of menstrual cycle.Most of the respondents 80.8 percent have heard about the menstruation before menarche and 94.2 percent of respondents had heard about the dysmenorrhoea where mother and sisters were found to be the source for information. Many of them 60.6 percent don’t know about the causes of dysmenorrhoea and among those 39.4 percent who knew about the cause claimed high for hormonal, and early menarche. Regarding the major problem faced,most of the respondents 81.7 percent claimed Pain in lower abdomen followed by 56.7 percent back pain. The respondents classify the major symptoms for V dysmenorrhoea to be as feelings of heaviness in lower abdomen by 73.1 percent,tiredness 45.2 percent and inability to concentrate in work in 39.4 percent. 76.9 percent perceived it as a natural process. Severity of pain was felt mild by 39.3 percent, moderate by 36.7 percent and severe by 24.0 percent of the respondents.Most of the respondents 72.2 percent do rest for avoiding dysmenorrheal pain. Hot,spicy and oily food was most preferred food by almost 51.9 percent of respondents.Only 20.2 percent remain absent from school during menstruation while majority of the respondents 69.2 percent practiced social restriction. 48.1 percent of the dysmenorrhoic respondents stated that their daily activities was sometimes affected by dysmenorrhea. For the management practice of dysmenorrhoea majority of the respondent over 45 percent perform home remedy, 19 percent take painkiller, 26.6 percent do nothing and least 8.9percent visit hospital. Majority of respondents 40.0 percent had good knowledge regarding dysmenorrhea followed by 31.7 percent and 19.2 percent poor knowledge. Late adolescents had good knowledge about dysmenorrhea than early adolescents. The respondents with bachelor level educated mother had good knowledge. Similarly respondents whose mother was abroad had good knowledge regarding dysmenorrhea. Out of 79 respondents suffering from dysmenorrhea, 79.8 percent had satisfactory level of practice and 20.2 percent had poor level of practice. Respondents following Hindu religion 79.8%) had satisfactory management. Majority of the respondents 81.2 percent belonging to joint family had satisfactory level of practice than respondents belonging to nuclear family. This study may not reflect the scenario of the country as a whole but several suchre searches carried out in different social and cultural contest in Nepal can reflect thescenario of dysmenorrhea. Traditional beliefs regarding menstruation still persist and menstrual hygiene among the adolescents was found to be unsatisfactory. It high lights the need of targeted interventions to raise awareness and provision of family health education package to all girls. Menstrual hygiene is an issue that needs to bead dressed at all levels.Item Knowledge and Practices Regarding Menstrual Hygiene among High School Adolescent Girls (A Study of Kathmandu Metropolitan City, Ward No. 13 & 14)(Faculty of Rural Development, 2018) Dhakal, SabitaThis research entitled Knowledge and Practices Regarding Menstrual Hygiene Among High School Adolescent Girls: A Study of Kathmandu Metropolitan City, Ward No. 13 & 14 is carried out for the partial fulfillment of the requirement of the course Master's in Rural Development. The main objectives of this research is to assess the knowledge and sources of information of adolescent school girls about menstruation, to identify the socio-cultural traditions and restrictions practiced during menstruation and to identify the reasons of school absenteeism during menstruation. Three research questions are made to address the objective of the study. A quantitative research design is used for the study under which survey method is used as main tools. For My research out of 7 government school in Kathmandu 13 & 14 as a sample only 3 government schools including Jana Prabhat Secondary School (40 girls, Kalimati-13, Kathmandu), N il Barahi Secondary School (78 girls, Tankeshwor Kalimati, Kathmandu-13) and Kuleshowor Awash Secondary School (78 girls, Kuleshowor-14 Kathmandu) total 190 girls students as a sampling are taken as respondents. After collecting the data, the data are analyzed by using statistical tools and represented in charts and diagrams. After collecting the information from field this research try to address the answers of all research questions. After analysis of the data it can be concluded that family members (mother, sisters, cousin sisters, grandmother) are the major source of information of menstruation for adolescent girls. The knowledge generally transform from mother to daughter. This knowledge is not enough because still some girls have miss conception about menstruation periods and cycle. Girls still do not have good hygiene practices. They still use clothes during menstruation. However the number of such girls who are using cloths is lesser, that indicates that girls are now conscious about their health. Still more than half girls do not bath IV regularly during the menstruation period and about 75% girls do not use soap for cleaning the vaginal part during the menstruation. Still 40% girls do not stay in their own room during the menstruation period and some of them are sent to their neighbor’s house as well. The superstitions of untouchability during the menstruation are almost there in every household. They are not allowed to enter and work in the kitchen during the menstruation period. It means the family members restrict the girls for doing rituals activities and other household’s activities during menstruation periods. Still half of the girls do not go schools on the first day of the menstruation. Among many reasons the common reason for this is health problem. The girls feel physically weak during the time and some even feel severe pain so they could not attend their class.Item Sexual Harassment Among Adolescent Girls:A Case Study of Emerald Academy Higher Secondary School and College bhadrapur, Jhapa, Nepal(Faculty of Sociology, 2011) Kandagwa, NabinThis research titled "Sexual harassment among Adolescent Girls"followed a descriptive research design. This study was conducted inEmerald Academy Higher Secondary School, Bhadrapur, Jhapa. Themain objective of the study was to identify the experience of sexualviolence faced by the adolescent girls. This research study followedPurposive sampling method. According to the objectives of the study, data were collected andpresented. The term sexual violence and sexual harassment was known toall the respondents. Every single woman and girl has once facedharassment once in their life. The major cause for sexual harassment wasmale dominated society. Culture and tradition in our country is very rigidforfemale. School and college going girls were also the risk group of sexualharassment while going and coming from school. In school also, malefriend and even some time teachers make them victim of harassment.Sexual harassment has a negative impact on physical, mental and sociallife of an individual. Majority of victims are withdrawn from social lifeand psychologically injured. It is said that male are responsible forharassment but this studies shows that always male are not responsiblefor sexual harassment. The activities and outlook of girl also plays a vitalrole in sexual harassment.