nursing implication:
The finding of the study have several implications in the following fields:
Community Health:
Health is not the concern of the health care systems alone, but of every individual, family and community. Nurse is one of the important members of medical and health care services in a community. She has a significant role in the prevention of illness and promotion of health. The nurses working in the community level must recognize learning needs of all the members identify teaching goals and develop strategies. The nurse has to perform health education in preventive, promotive, curative, restorative and rehabilitative aspects of health and illness. Health education on importance / maintenance of menstrual hygiene improves the knowledge of puberty girls' by which we can bring down the prevalence of reproductive problems in community.
Nursing Practice:
The findings of the study reveal the fact that the structured teaching programme regarding importance / maintenance of menstrual hygiene has improved the puberty girl’s knowledge.
(i) The nurse should utilize the opportunity to educate the puberty girls regarding the importance / maintenance of menstrual hygiene.
(ii) Continuing education programme can be planned for nurses to update the knowledge regarding importance / maintenance of menstrual hygiene.
(iii) It is the responsibility of the nursing personnel to conduct health education programmes as it is an integral component of nursing practice.
Therefore, the nursing personnel should educate the puberty girls regarding importance / maintenance of menstrual hygiene by using adequate visually av aids.
Nursing Education:
The study revealed that there was significant improvement in the knowledge of puberty girls regarding importance / maintenance of menstrual hygiene. To achieve this outcome, the student nurse, the nurse educator needs to have mastery of knowledge over importance / maintenance of menstrual hygiene. So, the nursing curriculum should emphasize the management of importance / maintenance of menstrual hygiene to reduce mobidity rate.
Nursing Research:
(i) This study findings will identify the present level of knowledge of puberty girls regarding importance / maintenance of menstrual hygiene.
(ii) The study will help to develop a positive attitude towards nursing research.
Nursing Administration:
(i) The nursing staff should be encouraged in the cost of effective production of audio - vusual aids used for teaching.
(ii) In service education should be given to the nursing personnel to update the knowledge regarding importance / maintenance of menstrual hygiene and plan appropriate interventions.
(iii) The administration should emphasize the nurse to conduct structured health education programme.
limitations
1) This study was conducted among the participants from a selected Govt. Schools only. So, generalization has been done with caution.
2) This study was done on a small sample size of puberty girls hence generalization is possible is possible only for the selected participants.
3) Because of the small sample size, findings must be interpreted with caution.
recommendations for further study:
Based on the findings of the study, the investigations proposed the following recommendations:
1) The same study can be conducted to find out the incidence and prevalence of importance / maintenance of menstrual hygiene.
2) A similar study can be conducted by using control and experimental group to assess the effectiveness of importance / maintenance of menstrual hygiene.
3) The same study can be conducted using a large sample size to assess the knowledge regarding importance / maintenance of menstrual hygiene.
4) A study can be done to assess the knowledge of puberty girls regarding importance / maintenance of menstrual hygiene before and after planned teaching programme.
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