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  title info:
    title: Knowledge and attitude on pre-menstrual syndrome among female college students of Kathmandu district
  name:
    name part: Jha,Kaberi.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    date issued: c2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x,84p.
  abstract: ABSTRACT: Background: Premenstrual syndrome is used to describe physical, cognitive, affective, and behavioral symptoms that occur cyclically during the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle and resolve quickly at or within a few days of the onset of menstruation. Objective: The objective of this study was to identify the knowledge and attitude on pre menstrual syndrome and to identify the association between socio-demographic variable with the level of knowledge and attitude towards premenstrual syndrome among femalecollege students of Tarkeshwor MunicipalityKathmandu district. Methodology: A descriptive cross sectional study was conducted among the female students of higher secondary school aged 14-22 yearsof Tarkeshwor municipality. Self administered questionnaires were used for data collection. The questionnaires consisted of socio-demographic data, general information of respondent's menarche and menstruation, knowledge and attitude towards premenstrual syndrome. Results/Discussion:A total of 232 female respondents were involved in this study. Their age ranges from 14-22 years and mean age is 17.47 years. In this study, it is found that only 13.8% of the respondent had good knowledge on premenstrual syndrome, 65.1% of the respondent had average knowledge and had 21.1% of the respondent had poor knowledge regarding premenstrual syndrome. As 68.1% of the respondents had negative attitude towards premenstrual syndrome, 25% of them had ambivalent attitude towards premenstrual syndrome and only 6.9% of the respondent have positive attitude towards premenstrual syndrome.As previous study, conducted by Givshad RD (2016) in Iran found that only 3.6% of the respondent had good knowledge, 61.8% had average knowledge and 34.5% of them had poor knowledge. And according to previous study 9.1% respondent had negative attitude, 63.6% of them had ambivalent attitude and 27.3% had positive attitude towards premenstrual syndrome which shows that the level of knowledge is better th…
  note: Thesis Report.
  subject:
    topic: Knowledge
  subject:
    topic: Pre-menstrual
  subject:
    topic: Syndrome
  subject:
    topic: Female college students
  subject:
    topic: Kathmandu
  classification: THS-00531
  identifier: http://nhrc.gov.np/contact/
  record info:
    record creation date: 191020
    record change date: 20220906184710.0