| dc.contributor.author | Penelope A Phillips-Howard, Elizabeth Nyothach, Feiko O ter Kuile, Jackton Omoto, Duolao Wang, Clement Zeh, Clayton Onyango, Linda Mason, Kelly T Alexander, Frank O Odhiambo, Alie Eleveld, Aisha Mohammed, Anna M van Eijk, Rhiannon Tudor Edwards, John Vulule, Brian Faragher, Kayla F Laserson | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-04T09:39:22Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-09-04T09:39:22Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-11-01 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.maseno.ac.ke/handle/123456789/2730 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Objectives
Conduct a feasibility study on the effect of menstrual hygiene on schoolgirls9 school and health (reproductive/sexual) outcomes.
Design
3-arm single-site open cluster randomised controlled pilot study.
Setting
30 primary schools in rural western Kenya, within a Health and Demographic Surveillance System.
Participants
Primary schoolgirls 14–16 years, experienced 3 menses, no precluding disability, and resident in the study area.
Interventions
1 insertable menstrual cup, or monthly sanitary pads, against ‘usual practice’ control. All participants received puberty education preintervention, and hand wash soap during intervention. Schools received hand wash soap.
Primary and secondary outcome measures
Primary: school attrition (drop-out, absence); secondary: sexually transmitted infection (STI) (Trichomonas vaginalis, Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoea), reproductive tract infection (RTI … | en_US |
| dc.publisher | British Medical Journal Publishing Group | en_US |
| dc.title | Menstrual cups and sanitary pads to reduce school attrition, and sexually transmitted and reproductive tract infections: a cluster randomised controlled feasibility study in … | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
