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Confidence to manage menstruation among university students in Australia: Evidence from a cross-sectional survey

Women's Health, 2022
Objectives: There has been increased attention to university students’ experiences of menstrual disorders, and access to menstrual products, in high-income countries.
Alana K Munro, Melanie Keep, Erin C Hunter, Syeda Z Hossain   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Addressing Menstruation in the Workplace: The Menstrual Leave Debate

The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies, 2020
Levitt and Barnack-Tavlaris discuss the idea of menstrual leave, a policy option that provides employees with time off during menstruation. They counter the paucity of research surrounding the impacts of such policies on menstruators and the locations ...
Rachel B. Levitt, J. Barnack-Tavlaris
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Critique of Advertisements for Female Hygiene Products: A Silent Crisis in America [PDF]

, 2019
Female hygiene advertisements can be ambiguous due to the intimate nature of menstruation. This can result in a lack of information and invoke the need to hide signals of menstruation.
Schulte, Laura
core   +1 more source

Self‐Administered Taste Testing Without Water: Normative Data for the 53‐Item Waterless Empirical Taste Test (WETT)

International Forum of Allergy &Rhinology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background According to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), more than 20 million Americans suffer from chronic taste problems. Unfortunately, quantitative testing is rarely performed, self‐reports are inaccurate, and “taste” is often confused with olfaction‐dependent flavors.
Richard L. Doty, Ryan Sharetts, Shima T. Moein   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Promoting menstrual health and hygiene—insights from the 2023 World Menstrual Hygiene Day celebration events in the Hohoe municipality in Ghana

Frontiers in Public Health
The 2023 World Menstrual Hygiene Day (WMHD) celebration at the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS) sought to create awareness about menstruation.
Sitsofe Gbogbo, Israel Wuresah, Phyllis Addo, Senam Klomegah, Emmanuel Gbogbo, Wisdom Axame, Priscilla Klutse, Christopher Makam, Robert Kokou Dowou, Paramount Eli Nelson, Ishmael Boateng, Sarah Odi Mantey, Nuworza Kugbey, Victor Christian Korley Doku, Julie Hennegan, Frank E. Baiden, Lydia Aziato, Fred N. Binka   +17 more
doaj   +1 more source

Therapy for Irregular Menstruation with Acupunture and Herbal Pegagan (Centella Asiatica (L.)) [PDF]

, 2018
Background : Menstruation is bleeding periodic scale and cyclical from uterus extrication (deskuamasi) endometrium. Menstruation bleeding is complex interaction result wich involve hormone system and body system, that are hypothalamus, hypofisis, ovarium
Adianti, M. (Myrna), Imandiri, A. (Ario), Prayuni, E. D. (Evin)   +2 more
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Human Cervix Chip: A Preclinical Model for Studying the Role of the Cervical Mucosa and Microbiome in Female Reproductive Health

BioEssays, EarlyView.
The microfluidic Cervix Chip is an in vitro model of the human cervix lined by cervical epithelium interfaced with stromal cells cultured under dynamic flow that represents a new preclinical platform for studying mucosal immunity, host‐microbiome interactions, infections, fertility, and pregnancy health.
Zohreh Izadifar, Anna Stejskalova, Aakanksha Gulati, Ola Gutzeit, Donald E. Ingber   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Menstrual attitudes in adult women: A cross-sectional study on the association with menstruation factors, contraceptive use, genital self-image, and sexual openness

Women's Health
Background: Menstruation is a central part of the everyday life of most women, and menstrual attitudes may impact health and well-being. Objectives: This article aimed to map menstrual attitudes among adult women and examine factors associated with these
Ingela Lundin Kvalem, Ida Maria Dahr Nygaard, Bente Træen, Anna Ivanova, Camilla Lindvall Dahlgren   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Puberty and menstruation knowledge among young adolescents in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review

International Journal of Public Health, 2019
ObjectivesThis study presents a scoping review of evidence relating to knowledge and experiences of puberty and menstruation among females aged 10–14 years in low- and middle-income countries.MethodsForty-four items from 12 countries were identified from
E. Coast, S. Lattof, Joe Strong
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Realities of Period Poverty: How Homelessness Shapes Women’s Lived Experiences of Menstruation

The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies, 2020
In this chapter, Vora focuses on the lived experiences of menstruation and homelessness. She offers an insight into the ways in which women experiencing homelessness understand and negotiate their leaky, menstrual bodies within contexts of limited ...
S. Vora
semanticscholar   +1 more source