Journal of Nutrition & Food Sciences
Open Access
ISSN: 2155-9600
ISSN: 2155-9600
Samar R Hossain
Maulana Azad Medical College, India
Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Nutr Food Sci
Background: Menstrual disorders frequently affect the quality of life of adolescents and young women. Menstrual disorders are a common presentation by late adolescence and about 75% of girls experience some problems associated with menstruation. Various aspects such as physiology, pathology and psychology of menstruation have been found to associate with health and well-being of women. Hence it is an important issue concerning morbidity and mortality of female population. Method: A school based cross-sectional study was carried out in primary and secondary schools of Achrol village, Jaipur who attained menarche, belonging to age groups of 10-19 years. Result: 60% of the adolescent girls i.e. 241 (60.2%) had normal menarche between 12 to 13 years of age while 120 (30.0%) girls had late menarche i.e. between 14 to 16 years of age. In the majority of the adolescent girls i.e. 283 (70.8%), it was normal, followed by menorrhagia in 104 (26.0%) adolescent girls. Out of 400 adolescent girls 180 (45.0%) gave history of consuming fast food frequently and all of them had dysmenorrhea. Conclusion: The study revealed that menstrual disorders like oligomenorrhoea, hypomenorrhoea, polymenorrhoea and menorrhagia ranged from 1.5% to 26.0% and around 20% girls had PMS. As per GOI through Rajiv Gandhi scheme for empowerment of adolescent girls-Sabla in an effort to provide adolescent reproductive and sexual health information and services along the continuum of care, community based intervention and demand generation initiatives should be linked to facility based service across all levels of health system.