BACKGROUNDPeriod poverty is a global health and social issue that needs to be *** has been reported that many females compromise their education,employment,and social commitments during their menstruation days due to ...
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BACKGROUNDPeriod poverty is a global health and social issue that needs to be *** has been reported that many females compromise their education,employment,and social commitments during their menstruation days due to a number of reasons,including lack of access to toilets or menstrual *** To provide a comprehensive understanding on period poverty,including outcomes associated with *** All observational and randomised clinical trials reporting menstruation challenges,menstrual poverty and menstrual products were *** search strategy included multiple electronic databases of PubMed,Web of Science,ScienceDirect,ProQuest and *** published in a peer review journal in English between the 30th of April 1980 and the 30th of April 2022 were *** Newcastle-Ottawa Scale was used to assess the risk of bias of the systematic included *** odds ratios(ORs)together with 95%confidence intervals(CIs)are reported overall and for *** A total of 80 studies were systematically selected,where 38 were included in the *** the 38 studies,28 focused on children and young girls(i.e.,10-24 years old)and 10 included participants with a wider age range of 15-49 *** prevalence of using disposable sanitary pads was 45%(95%CI:0.35-0.58).The prevalence of menstrual education pre-menarche was 68%(95%CI:0.56-0.82).The prevalence of good menstrual hygiene management(MHM)was 39%(95%CI:0.25-0.61).Women in rural areas(OR=0.30,95%CI:0.13-0.69)were 0.70 times less likely to have good MHM practices than those living in urban *** There was a lack of evidence,especially from low-and middle-income *** research to better understand the scope and prevalence of period poverty should be *** will enable the development of improved policies to increase access to menstrual products and medical support where necessary.
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