Menstruation Awareness Among Physical Education And Sports Fraternity: A Descriptive Study

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to study the menstruation awareness among the sports fraternity. The study investigated the menstruation knowledge difference among sports coaches, physical education teacher and gym trainers. For this study, 50 male gym trainers, 50 male physical education teachers and 50 male sports coaches between the ages 15-45 years were selected as the subject. To know their knowledge level, the variable of menstruation knowledge was selected and a questionnaire was made, which was approved by expertise in the field of gynaecology. With the help of SPSS, one way ANOVA was applied to the data collected from the subject’s response to the questionnaire. The results of the study showed that the mean score of the group of gym trainer was 15.40, for the group of physical education teacher was 17.10 and for the group of sports coach was 17.04 and the significance level was 0.554. The average percentage of gym trainer was 32.76%, while the average percentage of physical education teacher and sports coach was 36.38% and 36.25 % respectively. It was concluded that there was no significant difference in the level of menstruation knowledge among the gym trainers, sports coaches and physical education teachers (p>0.05).