@article { author = {Mehrabi, Shahrban and Etemadi, Ahmad and Borjali, Ahmad and Sadipoor, Esmail}, title = {The Effect of Puberty Education on Knowledge, Attitude and Function of Girl's Students}, journal = {Journal of Patient Safety & Quality Improvement}, volume = {4}, number = {3}, pages = {405-409}, year = {2016}, publisher = {Mashhad University of Medical Sciences}, issn = {2345-4482}, eissn = {2345-4490}, doi = {10.22038/psj.2016.7171}, abstract = {Introduction: The study was examined effect of puberty education on knowledge, attitude and function in girl's student in Jiroft. Materials & Methods: this was a quasi experimental study and the target population was girl's student at grade 1 high school in jiroft city and 40 girls were selected and were educated in a 12 sessions. The content of the educational course including physical signs of puberty, physiologic change in menstrual period, nutrition, sleep and psychological changes. The subjects completed in pretest and posttest a researcher made questionnaire that measure knowledge, attitude and function. The data was analyzed using descriptive indexes, t- and F-tests. The significant level was considered in less than 0.05. Results: The results showed that the average difference between pre-test and post-test knowledge, attitude and function in both experimental and control groups was significant (p<0.001). In the other words, the puberty education promoted the level of knowledge, attitude and function in the post test stage than pre-test (P<0.001). Conclusion: Results maintained the importance of puberty education in improving knowledge, attitude and function of female students.}, keywords = {Attitude,Function,Knowledge,puberty}, url = {https://psj.mums.ac.ir/article_7171.html}, eprint = {https://psj.mums.ac.ir/article_7171_d78c5692b4c481d8a12f09c4290940ad.pdf} }