A Cross-sectional Study on Awareness Regarding Safe and Hygienic Practices amongst School Going Adolescent Girls in Rural Area of Wardha District, India
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Abstract
Onset of menstruation is one of the most important changes occurring during adolescence. In various parts ofIndia, there are several cultural traditions, myths and misconceptions related to menstruation, which make themvulnerable to genital tract infections. To understand the perceptions, source of information and status ofmenstrual hygiene a cross- sectional study was carried out amongst 300 school going adolescent girls (10- 19 yrs)in the rural area of Wardha district, Maharashtra, India.Majority of the girls received the information regarding menstruation from their mothers (41%), followed byMedia (24%) and friends (19%). Of the girls who developed genital tract infections, 66% used cloth. 37% girlsdo not disclose about their menstruation. Cleanliness of external genitalia was unsatisfactory. Hence it isimportant to educate the girls with scientific knowledge and dispelling their myths and misconceptions therebyencouraging safe and hygienic practices for safeguarding themselves against various infections.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".