Menstrual Hygiene-Adolescent Girls' Concerns'

Results: 69.2% of the adolescent girls were aware about menstruation and mother was the key informant in 384 (76.80%). 100 (20.00%) thought that it is a Curse of God/Sin and 91 (18.20%) of the respondents perceived menstruation as a disease/abnormal bleeding. Only 149 (29.80%) of the subjects answered that uterus is the source of menstrual blood. Majority of the girls living in the joint families were not allowed to visit religious places and the association was found to be statistically significant (p<0.05).