Data for: "Menstrual health intervention and school attendance in Uganda (MENISCUS-2): A pilot intervention study"

Weiss, H. 2022. Data for: "Menstrual health intervention and school attendance in Uganda (MENISCUS-2): A pilot intervention study". [Online]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00001521.

Weiss, H. Data for: "Menstrual health intervention and school attendance in Uganda (MENISCUS-2): A pilot intervention study" [Internet]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; 2022. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00001521.

Weiss, H (2022). Data for: "Menstrual health intervention and school attendance in Uganda (MENISCUS-2): A pilot intervention study". [Data Collection]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00001521.

Description

The MENISCUS-2 study is a pre-post longitudinal study design of a menstrual health intervention among secondary school students in Uganda. The dataset contains information collected from 450 eligible and consented/assented students at baseline (232 girls and 218 boys) and 369 students at endline (188 girls and 181 boys). Variables cover knowledge and perceptions about menstrual hygiene management, pain management, school attendance, and perceptions of the intervention, as well as socio-demographic characteristics of each respondent. Qualitative data collected through in-depth interviews with selected girls are not included in this dataset.

Methods

Description of data capture

The Data collection form was developed and set up using Open Data Kit, self-completed by participants, and exported to Stata v14 for analysis.

Data capture method

Questionnaire: Interactive

Data Collection Period

From	To
4 October 2017	1 August 2018

Date (Date submitted to LSHTM repository)

30 November 2022

Geographical area covered (offline during plugin upgrade)

North Latitude	East Longitude	South Latitude	West Longitude
3.99748	35.1309	-1.42637	29.0005

Language(s) of written materials

English

People & Groups

Data Creators	Weiss, H
LSHTM Faculty/Department	Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health > Dept of Infectious Disease Epidemiology MRC/UVRI and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit
Research Centre	Tropical Epidemiology Group
Participating Institutions	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, MRC/UVRI & LSHTM Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda, WoMena, Dubai, UAE