Parents or school health trainers, which of them is appropriate for menstrual health education?

Abstract

Objectives: The purpose of this community-based participatory research was to compare different training sources for adolescents′ menstrual health education. Methods: From 15 middle schools in Tehran, through quota random sampling, 1823 female students were selected proportionally and allocated randomly to three groups (parent trained, schools′ health trainers trained, and control). Following a two-year training program, the adolescents′ menstrual health was compared. Results: In the present study, the school health trainers trained group showed a better feeling for menarche, compared to the two other groups (P 0.05). Conclusion: It is suggested that school-based health training leads to better menstrual health promotion and healthy puberty transition, and school health trainers play a key role in this regard.

Keywords

• Adolescents
• health
• menstrual