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Abstract
Introduction:
Aim:
To study the different aspects of health
problems of adolescent girls at urban field
practice area of Urban Health Training Centre
Gulbarga.
Objective:
1.
2.
%
57.14
1.68
28.57
0.42
5.46
2.10
1.26
2.52
2.10
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Discussion:
The present study was a cross-sectional study
carried out in an urban community of Gulbarga
city of Karnataka State. Adolescent girls between
238 between age group 15-19 years constituted
the study group. The main aim was to find out the
health and social problem among them. The
finding revealed that off the 238 study subjects,
136 (57.14%) were anemic 75 (31.51%) married
and 140(58.82%) had left the school
In the present study 165(69.33%) had normal
menstrual cycle and menstrual problems were
faced by 73(30.67%) adolescent girls. Most
common menstrual problem was
dysmenorrhoea 68(28.57%) followed by
menorrhagia 4(1.68%) and oligomenorraghia
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1(0.42%) .Sing MM, Devi R. Gupta S. S . observed
in their study that commonest reported
menstrual problem was dysmenorrhoea
(40.7%).
In the current study 75(31.51%) girls were
married. Similar finding was reported in the
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study done by Qumarun Nahar et. al (25%). The
reasons for early marriage as mentioned by
family members was that the girl child was
considered to be paraya dhan and age at
menarche, therefore it was the major
responsibility of elders in the family to get
adolescent girl married early.
The study finding shows that the overall
prevalence of anemia was 136 (57.14%). It was
due to adolescent spurt of growth, menstrual loss
and other reasons diet, personal hygiene etc.
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