Level and Associated Factors of Knowledge regarding Menstrual Hygiene among School-Going Adolescent Girls in Dang District, Nepal

Table 2

Adolescent school girls’ knowledge about menstruation and its management.

Knowledge about menstruation and its management	Number (n = 406)	Percentage
Knew menstruation is a cyclic process	343	84.5
Was aware that menstruation is a normal physiological process	359	88.4
Knew the common age range of menarche	360	88.7
Knew normal menstrual bleeding duration	292	71.9
Knew about definition of menstruation	324	79.8
Knew duration of a normal menstrual cycle	346	85.2
Knew about absorbents during menstruation	369	90.9
Aware that poor menstrual management causes infection	335	82.5
Aware that personal hygiene helps in pain management	341	84.0
Knew the common age range of menopause	128	31.5
Aware that menstruation is due to hormones	233	57.4
Aware that menstruation blood flows from vagina	313	77.1