Effectiveness of education program on secondary schools students knowledge about dysmenorrhea in Alnasiriya City Schools

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Objective: The study aim is to assess knowledge of secondary schools female students regarding dysmenorrhea; find out the effectiveness of education program on secondary schools students and also to identify relationship between education program and certain variables.

Methodology: The quasi-experimental design (pretest and posttest) on one hundred students 4th year in Khawla Bint Al-Azwar secondary school for females at morning shift in Al Nasiriya City, data collection started at 4th March to 18th March 2018.

A non-probability (purposive) sample of (100) students (50) student from scientific branch and (50) students from literary branch.

Data have been collected through using a questionnaire modeled and made up of three parts; the first part includes demographic data of study sample; the second part includes the previous history of students' menstrual cycle; and the third part includes the collection dysmenorrhea knowledge program, a study samples filled by the female students themselves concerning their dysmenorrhea knowledge program.

Data were collected through three stages pretest stage; educational program stage and posttest stage.

Validity is determined through a panel of 14 experts, and the reliability of the questionnaire is determined through pilot study of (15) students chosen randomly.

Data ate analyzed through descriptive inferential procedure.