Thesis
Impact of interpersonal and community level indicators on menstrual health and hygiene management among adolescent girls in rural India: a methodological analysis of behavioral monitoring tools
Master of Public Health (M.P.H.), Drexel University
2016
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17918/etd-7395
Abstract
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) India is currently implementing "A Communication Framework: Menstrual Management" in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Jharkhand, India. Behavioral monitoring of the communication framework allowed for the use of innovative community-based participatory monitoring tools to measure individual and community-level menstrual health and hygiene knowledge, attitude, and behavior change in villages receiving the menstrual management communication campaign. Behavioral monitoring tools were tailored for six populations, including adolescent girls, peer educators, mothers, fathers, frontline workers, and field facilitators. Mixed method approaches were used to analyze two innovative tools to assess their strengths and weaknesses while exploring social networks of adolescent girls and perceived social norms among respondent groups. Two manuscripts were developed to disseminate study findings: 1) Don't let a period end a sentence, let it start a conversation! A Mixed Method Approach to Exploring Adolescent Girls' Social Networks and Menstrual Health in Rural India and 2) "Today's girls don't believe old ideas": The relationship between approval and menstrual health behaviors among adolescent girls in rural India.
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- Title
- Impact of interpersonal and community level indicators on menstrual health and hygiene management among adolescent girls in rural India
- Creators
- Emily Peterman - DU
- Contributors
- Suruchi Sood (Advisor) - Drexel University (1970-)
- Awarding Institution
- Drexel University
- Degree Awarded
- Master of Public Health (M.P.H.)
- Publisher
- Drexel University; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Dana and David Dornsife School of Public Health; Community Health and Prevention; Drexel University
- Other Identifier
- 7395; 991014632322704721