Health Communication Interventions for Promoting Menstrual Health and Hygiene Management in India: A review

Abstract

Health communication interventions for promoting menstrual health in India is an unexplored area. It is commonly known that using strategic communication to plan and carry out projects that affect health behavior and societal change is an effective strategy. There are numerous interventions carried out in India, focussed on health related to menstruation and its hygiene management at different levels starting from the grassroots. This review aims to assess a wide range of published research that has utilized various approaches to investigate the effectiveness and variables of communication interventions influencing practices of menstruation and its hygiene management of women and teenage girls in India. The studies from India examining the different communication interventions were identified through online databases such as PubMed, Medline, Ovid, Sage Journals, Science Direct, Springer, Taylor, Francis, DOAJ, and Google Scholar. Findings highlighted different communication interventions like SBCC, BCC, IEC, and interpersonal communication were efficiently utilized to promote menstrual health information among adolescents and women of reproductive age.