Knowledge and attitudes towards dysmenorrhea among adolescent girls in an urban school in Sri Lanka

Hapuarachchige Sewvandi Maliga Sampath Kumari Wijesiri and Thusharie Sugandhika Suresh

Nursing & Health Sciences, 2013, vol. 15, issue 1, 58-64

Abstract: Knowledge of and attitudes towards dysmenorrhea among adolescent school girls were assessed in this study. A descriptive study was conducted among 200 Year 12 girls at a school in the Nugegoda Educational Division in the district of Colombo. Data collection was done by using non‐probability convenience sampling. The results indicated that 84% of the study population had dysmenorrhea. Paracetamol was the drug of choice for pain relief. There was a statistically‐significant (P

Date: 2013
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