Volume : VII, Issue : IX, September - 2018

MENSTRUAL HYGIENE AMONG KONDH WOMEN OF KORAPUT DISTRICTS, ODISHA

Mrs. Tapaswini Gouda, Dr. R. K. Choudhury

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The objective of the present study isto assess the hygiene during menstruation among the Kondh women of Koraput District of Odisha. Five hundred two(502) Kondh women belongto 15–49 yrs age group standardised as the reproductive age are selected randomly by purposive sampling. The study reveals that the majority of women are engaged in agricultural work with having low educational status i.e. 96.81 %. It is also observed that 28.09% of houses have no electricity connection. 100.00% of women have no facilities for defecation in their houses, for which they have to go open field which is an unhygienic practice. Similarly, women have lack of sufficient knowledge about the menstrual hygiene and 1.34% of women used sanitary pad during menstruation.

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Mrs. Tapaswini Gouda, Dr. R. K. Choudhury, MENSTRUAL HYGIENE AMONG KONDH WOMEN OF KORAPUT DISTRICTS, ODISHA, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-9 | September-2018

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