Background: Face-to-face interviews were done between June 2022 and October 2022, with
girls to administer a survey about physical and mental health, disabilities, nutrition, sexual and
reproductive health, gender norms, decision-making, education, and violence.
Objective: To assess the socio economic factors, education and puberty health among different
groups of adolescent girls in Mandya District.
Methods: Interviewers visited every home in the several panchayaths in the Mandya District
between June 2022 and October 2022. They sought out all girls between the ages of 9 and 19
years. A descriptive analysis was performed along chi-square test to find the association
between age of puberty, type of school, frequency of food consumption, physical problems
during menstruation and so on.
Results: 1000 females who lived in the research region were interviewed for data. Girls aged
11 to 13 make up 51.30% of the teenage population in the research area. 38.8% of teenage girls
had completed their secondary school. 99.2% of the research's adolescent girls are not married.
The majority of girls have trouble getting to school because there aren't enough transit
facilities. When compared to being hygienic, girls keep themselves that way by taking regular
baths and learning about cleanliness from their mothers.
Conclusions: Our study highlighted a number of goals for improving the health, nutrition,
and wellbeing of teenage girls in the Mandya District, which is largely rural, including
reducing violence, early marriage, and under nutrition as well as improving mental health and
understanding puberty.
Keywords: Adolescent health, mental health, Nutrition, Education, Menstrual hygiene, India
Publication date: 15/06/2023
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