Awareness Regarding Menstrual Hygiene Management in Term of Use of Sanitary Napkin: With Reference to Rural Areas of Central Himalayas

Abstract

Acknowledging the need to raise awareness about menstrual hygiene management, specifically sanitary napkin use with reference to rural areas girls, the present research was conducted in two blocks of Nainital region, Uttarakhand (260 respondent) by using exploratory cum descriptive research design and SPSS was used for analysis. The finding shows that 49.6% of the girls used sanitary napkins because they think sanitary napkin do not spread infection. The majority of the girls change their sanitary napkins every 4-6 or 8-10 hours. In order to avoid viral infection, 60.4% of girls change their sanitary napkin. Because sanitary napkin provides superior hygiene, sanitary napkins are preferred by 60.4% of the rural college girls.