Title Parents\' knowledge and predictions about the age of menarche: experimental evidence from Honduras
Authors ACCERENZI, MICHELA, BRAÑAS GARZA, PABLO ERNESTO, JORRAT, DIEGO ANDRÉS
External publication No
Means Archives of Public Health
Scope Article
Nature Científica
JCR Quartile 2
SJR Quartile 1
JCR Impact 3.2
SJR Impact 0.967
Web https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85148248530&doi=10.1186%2fs13690-023-01030-5&partnerID=40&md5=18d4d692c2c958271eddb645783ee004
Publication date 01/02/2023
ISI 000931843600002
Scopus Id 2-s2.0-85148248530
DOI 10.1186/s13690-023-01030-5
Abstract Background: Access to accurate, timely and age-appropriate information about menarche is an essential part of menstrual health. Reliable evidence shows that girls primarily obtain information from their mothers and/or other female family members, therefore, it is important to determine parents’ knowledge and their predictions about other parents’ knowledge of the age of menarche. Methods: To this end, we performed a pre-registered study with data collected from 360 households in Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras. We implemented a novel procedure to avoid social desirability bias whereby participants answered two separated questions: i) their knowledge about the age of menarche (self-report) and ii) to predict or guess the modal response of the other participants regarding the same question (modal guess). Participants were paid according to accuracy. Both questions appeared randomly in the survey. Results: Recent studies indicate the age of menarche at 12 years old and 56.11% of the sample gave the same response while 62.78% hit the modal value. We estimated the impact of different sociodemographic variables and found only marginal differences. Interestingly, people with formal education and women tend to respond with lower predictions. Conclusion: Parents’ knowledge about the age of menarche is high in the study area. The study also found that there was no social desirability bias. © 2023, The Author(s).
Keywords article; child; education; female; Honduras; household; human; human experiment; menarche; prediction; school child; self report; social desirability bias; sociodemographics
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