The Impact of Menstrual Hygiene Management and Gender on Psychosocial Outcomes for Adolescent Girls in Kenya

This research measures the psychosocial impact of a Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) program in Kenya by assessing change in self-efficacy, authenticity, and hope in adolescent girls. Trained researchers administered baseline and end-line assessments, 16 weeks apart, to 311 participants in the Always Keeping Girls in School Program. The schools were assigned to one of three program versions: only period products, only menstrual health education, or both menstrual health education and period products; in all-girls or coed classes. When girls received MHM education and pads in coed classes, there was no change in their self-efficacy or hope scores, but in all-girls classes, self-efficacy and hope scores significantly increased. Authenticity in girls decreased in coed classes unless period products were distributed, and then girl’s authenticity scores increased. The role of gender in assessing change in self-efficacy, authenticity and hope has provided a useful frame for evaluating MHM programming. The data set includes Time 1 and Time 2 data on all key variables.

本研究针对肯尼亚的月经卫生管理（Menstrual Hygiene Management, MHM）项目展开评估，通过测量青春期女生的自我效能感、真实感与希望感的变化，量化该项目的社会心理影响。经过培训的研究人员对参与“持续保障女童入学”项目的311名受试者，于间隔16周的两个时间点分别开展基线评估与终末评估。所有参与学校被分为三类项目组别：仅提供经期用品组、仅开展月经健康宣教组，以及同时提供月经健康宣教与经期用品组；且课堂设置分为全女生课堂与男女混合课堂两类。若女生在男女混合课堂中同时接受月经健康宣教并获取经期用品，则其自我效能感与希望感得分无显著变化；但在全女生课堂中，二者得分均出现显著提升。在男女混合课堂中，女生的真实感得分会出现下降，除非发放了经期用品，此时其真实感得分则会上升。性别在自我效能感、真实感与希望感变化评估中的作用，为月经卫生管理项目的效果评估提供了颇具价值的分析框架。本数据集涵盖了所有核心变量在时间1与时间2的观测数据。