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Sharing the Abject in Digital Culture

A Peer-Reviewed Journal About, 2016
Menstruation has been picked up lately by the ‘tech’ industry. Today millions of users track their period cycle using reproductive health apps, and menstruation tracking is an integrated feature in Apple’s HealthKit software platform.The digitization of
Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard
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Women’s and girls’ experiences of menstruation in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and qualitative metasynthesis

PLoS Medicine, 2019
Background Attention to women’s and girls’ menstrual needs is critical for global health and gender equality. The importance of this neglected experience has been elucidated by a growing body of qualitative research, which we systematically reviewed and ...
Julie Hennegan, Alexandra K Shannon, Jennifer Rubli, K. Schwab, G. Melendez-Torres   +4 more
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Knowledge and practice of menstrual hygiene among adolescent girls in secondary schools of Herat, Afghanistan

Razi International Medical Journal, 2022
Background: The experience of menarche is often confusing and causes ambivalence among adolescent girls due to their lack of information on the menstruation cycle and menstrual vaginal bleeding.
Goodness Ogeyi Odey, Moriam Adesola Adegbite, Nosaibah Razaqi, Gulalai Faizi, Habibah Afzali, Mozhgan Ahmadi, Zahra Frough, Sudip Bhattacharya, Don Eliseo Lucero-Prisno III   +8 more
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Menstruation: Is a Normal Phenomenon Perceived Normally in Early Adolescents: A Cross Sectional Study

National Journal of Community Medicine, 2020
Introduction: Most Indian women believe that menstruation contaminates the body and makes it unholy. With this background, present study was proposed. Objectives: 1. To assess the effects of menstruation on routine activities in early adolescent girl
Poonam Vijay Sancheti, Rupeshkumar Dattatray Shinde   +1 more
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Assessment of awareness, experience, and attitude of Saudi women about oral health changes during the menstruation: A cross-sectional study

Saudi Journal for Health Sciences, 2022
Background: One of the systemic conditions that lead to several changes in the oral cavity is hormonal changes which occur during puberty, menstruation, pregnancy, or menopause, so the awareness of women about these oral changes during the menstruation ...
Abdullah Saleh Almutairi
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Menstrual Migraine

Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 2004
The association between migraine and menstruation was determined using diary data from 155 women of median age 44 years (range, 15 to 58 years) who were not using hormonal contraception and attended the City of London Migraine Clinic, UK.
J Gordon Millichap
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Socio-cultural factors associated with knowledge, attitudes and menstrual hygiene practices among Junior High School adolescent girls in the Kpando district of Ghana: A mixed method study

PLoS ONE, 2022
Background Good menstrual hygiene practice is critical to the health of adolescent girls and women. In Ghanaian public schools, the School Health Education Program which includes menstrual health education has been instituted to equip adolescents with ...
Lebene Kpodo, Matilda Aberese-Ako, Wisdom Kudzo Axame, Martin Adjuik, Margaret Gyapong   +4 more
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Development and validation of a menstruation-related activity restriction questionnaire among adolescent girls in urban resettlement colonies of Delhi

Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 2021
Introduction: Menstruation, a physiological phenomenon, till date is associated with myths, taboos, and malpractices. These interfere with the emotional, physical, and mental health of adolescent girls.
Suneela Garg, Yamini Marimuthu, Nidhi Bhatnagar, M Megha Chandra Singh, Amod Borle, Saurav Basu, Falak Azmi, Yomri Dabi, Indu Bala   +8 more
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KOMPRES HANGAT MEMPENGARUHI DERAJAT NYERI MENSTRUASI PADA SISWI KELAS X DI SMA NEGERI 2 PAMEKASAN

Jurnal Ilmiah Kesehatan, 2018
The pain of menstruation can cause a nuisance of daily activity. One of the handling way to reduce the level of menstruation pain is doing warm compress. The event rate of menstruation pain in SMAN 2 Pamekasan, 70% female students of tenth grade get the
Makrifatul Amaliyah, R. Khairiyatul Afiyah   +1 more
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Queering Menstruation: Trans and Non‐Binary Identity and Body Politics

Sociological inquiry, 2020
Menstruation has been historically known as a function of the female body that affects women. Trans and non-binary people face this biological function as a potential social signal of gender/sex identity.
S. Frank
semanticscholar   +1 more source