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Adult feminine hygiene practices
- Source :
- Applied Nursing Research. 9:123-129
- Publication Year :
- 1996
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 1996.
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Abstract
- Adult feminine hygiene practices are the focus of this exploratory descriptive study. In a sample of 193 women, the typical respondent lived in the Southeast and was a single student who was 23 years of age, and White. Body cleansing, feminine hygiene, and menses management practices were examined. It was found that handwashing varied according to bodily involvement or specific feminine hygiene practices. Assorted menses management products were used for menses management and were used when the woman was not menstruating. The results of this study suggest that it might be possible for health care providers to teach women safe and economical health care practices, such as not douching and handwashing before and after use of menses management products to prevent infections.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Adolescent
media_common.quotation_subject
education
Menstruation
Patient Education as Topic
Nursing
Hygiene
Surveys and Questionnaires
Health care
Humans
Medicine
Menstrual Hygiene Products
Therapeutic Irrigation
General Nursing
media_common
business.industry
Middle Aged
Shock, Septic
Middle age
FEMININE HYGIENE
Vagina
Respondent
Female
Descriptive research
business
Hand Disinfection
Patient education
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 08971897
- Volume :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Applied Nursing Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ee18584154af1067ef49a836585c6a99
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0897-1897(96)80218-7