https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00001521
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.
| Variable Name | Variable Label | Answer Label | Answer Code | Variable Type |
| idno | Unlinked ID number | Open ended | Numeric | |
| gender | Are you male or female? | Numeric | ||
| Female | 1 | |||
| Male | 2 | |||
| schcode | Which school are you at? | Numeric | ||
| Entebbe Parents | 1 | |||
| Airforce | 2 | |||
| menchange | During your last period, how many times did you change your pad or other material? | Numeric | ||
| Never in 24 hours | 0 | |||
| Once | 1 | |||
| Twice | 2 | |||
| Three times | 3 | |||
| Four times | 4 | |||
| Five times | 5 | |||
| Six times | 6 | |||
| More than 7 times | 7 | |||
| menacc_last | Did blood leak through your clothes during your *most recent* period? | Numeric | ||
| No | 0 | |||
| Yes | 1 | |||
| pain_last | Did you have any pain during your last period | Numeric | ||
| No | 0 | |||
| Yes | 1 | |||
| Underwear_stained | Was underwear stained? | Numeric | ||
| No | 0 | |||
| Yes | 1 | |||
| daysmiss_term2_any_bin | In Term 2, how many days of school did you miss for any reason? | Numeric | ||
| Yes | 1 | |||
| No | 0 | |||
| Not completed | NULL | |||
| daysmiss_term2_men_bin | In Term 2, how many days of school did you miss because of your period? | Numeric | ||
| Yes | 1 | |||
| No | 2 | |||
| painease_1 | What did you do to help the pain during your last period? - "Nothing" | Numeric | ||
| No | 0 | |||
| Yes | 1 | |||
| Not applicable (no pain at last period) | NULL | |||
| painease_2 | What did you do to help the pain during your last period? - "Painkillers" | Numeric | Numeric | |
| sdq_tot | Total Difficulties score (Strength & Difficulties Questionnaire) | Numeric | Numeric | |
| usedpainmanage | Use at least one effective way of managing pain in last period | Numeric | ||
| No | 0 | |||
| Yes | 1 | |||
| Not applicable (no pain at last period) | NULL | |||
| age_cat | Age category | Numeric | ||
| <16 | 1 | |||
| 16+ | 2 | |||
| study | Study stage | Numeric | ||
| Baseline | 1 | |||
| Endline | 2 | |||
| kit | Did you receive a menstrual kit? | Numeric | ||
| No | 0 | |||
| Yes | 1 | |||
| kit_use | How useful did you find the kit? | Numeric | ||
| Not very useful | 0 | |||
| Very useful | 1 | |||
| reusable_try | Did you use the re-usable pads provided to you by the MENISCUS project? | Numeric | ||
| No | 0 | |||
| Yes | 1 | |||
| voucher | Did you use any study vouchers to get painkillers? | Numeric | ||
| No | 0 | |||
| Yes | 1 | |||
| pub_sess | Have you attended any education sessions on puberty and menstruation delivered by teachers at your school in term 1 or term 2 this year? | Numeric | ||
| Yes | 1 | |||
| No | 2 | |||
| Not sure | 88 | |||
| drama_att | Did you attend the drama skit on menstruation performed by students at your school? | Numeric | ||
| Yes | 1 | |||
| No | 2 | |||
| san_menuse_only | Used only sanitary methods of menstrual protection | Numeric | ||
| Unsanitary | 0 | |||
| Sanitary only | 1 | |||
| allknow | All 9 knowledge questions correct | Numeric | ||
| Not correct | 0 | |||
| Correct | 1 | |||
| allknow_correct_notpreg | All 8 knowledge questions apart from pregnancy correct | Numeric | ||
| Not correct | 0 | |||
| Correct | 1 | |||
| allmyth_correct | All 4 myth questions correct | Numeric | ||
| Not correct | 0 | |||
| Correct | 1 | |||
| allmenstrual_correct | All 3 menstrual quesitons correct | Numeric | ||
| Not correct | 0 | |||
| Correct | 1 | |||
| numpainmanage_4 | Knows at least 4 effective pain management strategies | Numeric | ||
| No | 0 | |||
| Yes | 1 | |||
| handwater_mostalways | At school, is water available close to the toilet facilities for handwashing? | Numeric | ||
| No | 0 | |||
| Yes | 1 | |||
| soap_mostalways | At school, is soap available for handwashing all or most of the time? | Numeric | ||
| No | 0 | |||
| Yes | 1 | |||
| tp_mostalways | At school, is toilet paper available all or most of the time? | Numeric | ||
| No | 0 | |||
| Yes | 1 | |||
| toilet_bin_mostalways | At school, can you use a toilet or latrine that has a bin for disposal all or most of the time? | Numeric | ||
| No | 0 | |||
| Yes | 1 | |||
| toilet_lock_mostalways | At school, can you use a toilet or latrine that locks all or most of the time? | Numeric | ||
| No | 0 | |||
| Yes | 1 | |||
| perception_scale_bin | Perception of menstruation (binary) | Numeric | ||
| Scale 0-7 | 0 | |||
| Scale 8-9 | 1 | |||
| painmethod_used | Used one of the following at last menstrual period: hot water bottle, exercise, stretching, drinking water or relaxing or food with lots of water | Numeric | ||
| No | 0 | |||
| Yes | 1 |