Menstrual Effect on Education of Girl Student: Cases from Secondary Level School of Kathmandu, Nepal
- Author Dr. Tej Bahadur Karki
- DOI
- Country : Nepal
- Subject : Moral education
Keywords : Education, Effect, Girl, Menstrual, Nepal, Student
Abstract
Menstruation is natural phenomena occurring among the girls during the adolescent years. The situation of menstruation is considered differently as the cultural practices of society. In Nepal, some communities have strict rules for menstrual girl/women; they are not allowed to touch food items, drinking water, worship the god and participate in the religious and cultural program. The study aims to identify the menstrual effect on education of girl student. The study was conducted among the 120 girl students of one private and one public school of Kathmandu district of Nepal. The study was based on the quantitative design and students were selected from the simple random sampling technique. Structured questionnaire survey was done to collect the data. The results show that majority (89.2%) experienced the leaks in school time. 26.7% girls said that if they will have leak at school then they will go back to home. 60% girls never missed school at the time of menstruation whereas 36.7% missed sometimes and 3.3% always missed the school. The main causes of missing of school were severe stomach pain. In conclusion, it is found that there was no significant effect of menstruation on educational achievement of girl students though school should provide the menstrual hygiene kits to girl to decrease the absent rate at the time of menstruation.
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