Effectiveness of Menstruation Education to Secondary School Students

Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Menstruation Education Given to Secondary School Students With and Without Animation

Supporting adolescents with education about the menstruation process is important in terms of managing the process physically and mentally healthy and gaining lifelong positive health behaviors. Various narrative techniques including visuals, slides and animations are utilized in menstruation education for adolescents. Within the scope of these narrative techniques, technological tools are frequently used for learning purposes in adolescence. In technology-supported education, training that includes visual materials such as animations and multimedia software is very important. Presentations supported by various visuals and texts can be effective in trainings on mentoring. Presentations can appeal to students' visual senses and attract their attention. Animation is one of the technology-based applications that are frequently used in the education of adolescents and support education. The presentation can be animated or non-animated.

Study Overview

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Conditions: Menstruation; Education; Student; Animation
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Non-animated Menstruation Education; Other: Animated Menstruation Education

Detailed Description

It is stated that girls experiencing the process without having information about menarche causes negative emotions such as fear, anxiety, sadness and crying. In addition, it is emphasized that girls have difficulties in managing the menstruation process and that they should be supported to manage this process in a healthy way.. In addition, it is stated that adolescents' school absenteeism increases, academic achievement decreases and school dropouts occur due to their inability to manage the menstrual process in the school environment. In this context, it is important to inform and support adolescents about the problems experienced during menstruation and coping techniques. It is reported that adolescents' early adoption of correct knowledge, attitudes and behaviors towards the menstruation process will positively affect physiological and psychological health, body image and healthy sexual identity formation.

Supporting adolescents with education about the menstruation process is important in terms of managing the process in a physically and mentally healthy way and gaining lifelong positive health behaviors. In mentoring education for adolescents, various visual, slide and animation narrative techniques are used. Within the scope of these expression techniques, technological tools are frequently used for learning purposes in adolescence. In technology-supported education, trainings that include visual materials such as animations and multimedia software are very important. Presentations supported by various visuals and texts can be effective in trainings on mentoring. Presentations can appeal to students' visual senses and attract their attention. Animation is one of the technology-based applications that are frequently used in the education of adolescents and support education. The presentation can be animated or non-animated. Animation is "the act of animating successive frames of connected movement within a period of seconds". It is stated that the use of animation in the education process concretizes complex subjects, increases retention, provides a fun learning experience, facilitates the learning of complex and difficult concepts, reinforces learning by emphasizing visuality, and is effective in drawing attention to the subject. In studies conducted on adolescent students, animation-supported education programs are reported to be more effective than presentation-supported lectures. In this context, it is important to provide animation-supported trainings to adolescents by health professionals.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Estimated): 90
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Hacer Gök Uğur, Assoc. Prof. Dr.; Phone Number: 6432 90452 226 52 00; Email: hacer32@gmail.com

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Secondary school student
• Open to communication and collaboration,
• Female students who agreed to participate in the study and whose parents gave their consent were included in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Special education students from the research,
• Female students who do not want to continue the research will be excluded.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Double

Number of Arms

3

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Non-animated Menstruation Education Group; Non-animated menstruation education will be given to this arm.	Other: Non-animated Menstruation Education; Providing menstruation education to female secondary school students with Powerpoint support without animation.
Experimental: Animated Menstruation Education Group; Animated menstruation education will be given to this arm.	Other: Animated Menstruation Education; Providing menstruation education to female secondary school students with Powerpoint and animation support.
No Intervention: Control Group; Participants in the control group will not be subjected to any intervention during the research process.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Knowledge Test	This knowledge test was developed by Gümüş (2024) to measure the knowledge level of middle school students about menstruation. In the knowledge test, "1 point" was given for a correct answer and "0 point" for an incorrect answer. The Kuder-Richardson (KR-20) value was found to be 0.563 to determine the internal consistency of the knowledge test.	From enrollment to the end of education at 2 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: T.C. ORDU ÜNİVERSİTESİ

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Estimated): April 1, 2025
• Primary Completion (Estimated): June 1, 2025
• Study Completion (Estimated): August 1, 2025

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: March 15, 2025
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 15, 2025
• First Posted (Actual): March 25, 2025

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): March 25, 2025
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 15, 2025
• Last Verified: March 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Student; Education; Menstruation; Animation
• Other Study ID Numbers: OrduA1

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No