[Home ] [Archive]    
Main Menu
Home::
Journal Information::
Articles archive::
For Authors::
For Reviewers::
Publishing Policies::
Contact us::
Site Facilities::
Webmail::
::
Search in website

Advanced Search
Receive site information
Enter your Email in the following box to receive the site news and information.
Last site contents
:: Review Policies
:: Volume 12, Issue 2 (May-June 2017) ::
IJNR 2017, 12(2): 28-37 Back to browse issues page
Effect of Puberty Health Education on Awareness Health Assessment and General Health of Females Studying at Junior High Schools of Ghaen City
Seyed Mostafa Mohsenizadeh , Zahra Ebadinejad * , Ali Dashtgrad , Asieh Moudi
Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran
Abstract:   (9031 Views)

Introduction: Adolescence is a very important stage of any person’s life, since it has a relationship with health. Adolescent females have a special importance among these groups. It seems that having knowledge about health principles in the puberty period leads to the prevention of many misunderstandings and problems in adolescents. Therefore, the effect of puberty health education on awareness about health assessment and general health in females studying in junior high schools of Qain city was assessed.

Methods: This research was an experimental and pre-test design with a control group. The research sample included students in 2 different 3rd year classes of junior high schools. The samples were divided with random sampling to an intervention (N = 47) and control group (N = 40). After the intervention, information was collected with awarness health assessment and general health questionnaires. An education program about puberty and menstrual hygiene for students in the intervation group was offered with lectures, face to face, question and answer, discussions during three 60-minute sessions. The data were analyzed through using t test, chi-square, Wilcoxon, Mann Whitney, Pearson, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and repeated measures, using the SPSS 18.

Results: T independed test showed that awarerness health assessment score of students about health the in intervention group, 1 month after education, had a significant difference with the control group (P = 0.039). However, this difference was not significant immediately after education between the 2 groups (P = 0.139). Mann Whitney test showed that general health score students in the intervention groups and 1 month after education showed significant differences with the control group (P = 0.44). The Wilcoxon test showed that there was no significant difference in the 2 groups between the scores of general health before and 1 month after the training.

Conclusions: Although adolescent health education could not significantly increase students' general health score, yet is managed to some extent by increasing awareness health assessment of students, which is effective in improving health score. Therefore, it is essential that the authorities have to pay greater attention to the problems of females in this period.

Keywords: Health Education, Puberty, Awareness, General Health, Adolescent
Full-Text [PDF 679 kb]   (2623 Downloads)    
Type of Study: Health and Nutrition | Subject: health and nutrition
Received: 2016/08/6 | Accepted: 2017/05/20 | Published: 2017/05/20
Add your comments about this article
Your username or Email:

CAPTCHA


XML   Persian Abstract   Print


Download citation:
BibTeX | RIS | EndNote | Medlars | ProCite | Reference Manager | RefWorks
Send citation to:

Mohsenizadeh S M, ebadinejad Z, Dashtgrad A, Moudi A. Effect of Puberty Health Education on Awareness Health Assessment and General Health of Females Studying at Junior High Schools of Ghaen City. IJNR 2017; 12 (2) :28-37
URL: http://ijnr.ir/article-1-1762-en.html


Rights and permissions
Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Volume 12, Issue 2 (May-June 2017) Back to browse issues page
Persian site map - English site map - Created in 0.05 seconds with 36 queries by YEKTAWEB 4645