A Study on Health Problems During Menstruation among Female Students

Abstract

The menstrual cycle may affect women physically, psychologically and behaviorally.The study is aimed to assess the health problems among   during menstrual period among students. A sample of 100 respondents was randomly selected from arts faculty in Annamalai University. Well prepared schedule was used for data collection and analysis was done through frequency and percent. The result revealed that majority of the students had fair knowledge of menstruation and menstrual hygiene. It has been observed that 24percent reported that they had irregular period. Regarding irregular period it has been shown that 50

 percent of them had irregular period because of stress while 29 percent and 21 percent of them had reported illness and undernourished food respectively. It has been suggested to include reproductive health information and educational programs for adolescents in the school curriculum in order to increase their awareness on health problems during menstrual period.