Education with mobile application: The "I Can Do It Independently" mobile application developed by the researchers includes two training videos on hand hygiene and menstruation management. Adolescents will be asked to play the games related to the training after watching the training videos. Thus, it is aimed for the participant to reinforce the training. The mobile application was developed by a multidisciplinary team of special education, nurse, midwife and software engineering academicians specifically for female adolescents with mild intellectual disabilities. Adolescents in the intervention group will be asked to use the mobile application for approximately 30 minutes every day. (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hookey.bagimsizyapabilirim\&pcampaignid=web\_share)
Study summary
In the study conducted to determine the effectiveness of menstruation management training given with a mobile application (Bağımsız Yapabilirim) in female adolescents with mild intellectual disabilities in the independent living support program, the effect of the developed mobile application on hand hygiene and pad change will be determined. The research is a randomized controlled study.
Eligibility
Sex
FEMALE
Min age
10 Years
Max age
19 Years
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
Inclusion Criteria:
* Diagnosed with mild intellectual disability
* Menstrual cycle has started and menstruation is regular
* Primary caregivers are mothers
* Toilet-trained
* Has the ability to stick an adhesive object to a surface and remove it from the surface
* Have the ability to dress and undress
* Have the ability to follow simple instructions
* Adolescent girls and their mothers who have the ability to recognize the materials to be used will be included in the study.
Exclusion Criteria:
* Not willing to use the mobile application at any stage of the study
* Participated in a different training on menstruation management while the research was ongoing
* Not completing the education process
* Not completing the data collection forms
* Mentally disabled adolescent girls with moderate, severe and very severe intellectual disabilities and their mothers will be excluded from the study.
Primary outcome measure(s)
Introductory Form for Mothers and Female Adolescents with Intellectual Disabilities — 1st Time: Day 1 This form was developed through a literature review to be used in both "analysis" and "design" phases of the study. The form consists of two sections to determine the socio-demographic characteristics of mothers and daughters and the menstrual characteristics of the mentally disabled female adolescent. In the first part of the form in which socio-demographic characteristics were evaluated, there were 17 questions such as the age of the mother and daughter, education and employment status of the mother, while in the second part of the form in which menstrual characteristics of the mentally disabled female adolescent were evaluated, there were 11 questions about menstruation period and hygiene such as whether menarche started or not, whether menstrual cycle was regular or not, whether the mother gave education to her daughter about menstrual period and pad change or not.
This page summarises publicly available registry data for informational purposes — not medical advice. Eligibility is determined by each study team; patients should discuss participation with their clinician.
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