Original Research Article
Year: 2021 | Month: January-March | Volume: 6 | Issue: 1 | Pages: 110-117
An Experimental Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Ginger Powder on Dysmenorrhea Among High School Students of Selected High School, Hubballi - Dharwad
Divya Talawar1, Asha H Bhatakhande2, Sanjay M Peerapur3
1B.Sc Nursing Final Year student, KLES Institute of Nursing Sciences, Hubballi, Karnataka.
2Associate Professor & HOD, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecological Nursing, KLES Institute of Nursing Sciences Hubballi, Karnataka.
3Principal/Professor, HOD, Department of Medical Surgical Nursing,
KLES Institute of Nursing Sciences, Hubballi, Karnataka.
Corresponding Author: Divya Talawar
ABSTRACT
Background: Dysmenorrhea is one of the most common gynecologic disorders affecting more than half of menstruating girls and women. Home remedies for the treatment of dysmenorrhoea are known to help ease off the pain during painful menstrual periods. Ginger is a herb. Ginger is one of the herbal supplements that has been used for medical purposes since antiquity and is known as a popular herbal medication to treat painful diseases.
Objective: To assess the dysmenorrhoea symptoms among high school students. To evaluate the effectiveness of ginger powder on management of dysmenorrhea among high school students. To find out an association between the pre test scores of management of dysmenorrhea among high school students with their selected demographic variables.
Material and Methods: A study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of ginger powder on dysmenorrhea among high school students of selected High school, Hubballi-Dharwad.’’ The research design used for the study was pre-experimental; one group pre-test, post-test design. The demographic Performa were collected from the high school girls by using Modified menstrual symptom questionnaire. Results-Revealed that in pre-test, majority of the subjects 20(80%) had moderate menstrual symptoms, 10(20%) had severe menstrual scores and none of them had mild symptoms whereas, after administrating the ginger i.e. in post-test 17(56.6%) had mild menstrual symptoms and 13(43.4%) had moderate menstrual symptoms and none of them had severe menstrual symptoms. And further calculated paired t value (tcal= 12.43*) was greater than the tabulated value (ttab=2.05). Hence H1was accepted. This indicates that the reduction in mean menstrual symptoms was significant at the rate of 0.05 level of significance. Therefore, the ginger powder was effective in reducing the menstrual symptoms.
Conclusion: Therefore, the study concluded that, the overall pre-test menstrual symptom scores were moderate to severe. The post-test menstrual symptom scores of high school girls who were given with ginger powder consecutively during periods with dysmenorrhoea, showed significant reduction in menstrual symptoms.
Keywords: Dysmenorrhoea, Menstrual symptoms, Ginger Powder, high school girls.