Parents' knowledge and predictions about the age of menarche: experimental evidence from Honduras
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 paren...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7225425f90d742deb91f2b381a14c4682023-02-12T12:05:17ZengBMCArchives of Public Health2049-32582023-02-018111910.1186/s13690-023-01030-5Parents' knowledge and predictions about the age of menarche: experimental evidence from HondurasMichela Accerenzi0Pablo Brañas-Garza1Diego Jorrat2Fundación ETEA - Development Institute of Universidad Loyola AndalucíaLoyola Behavioral Lab, Universidad Loyola AndalucíaLoyola Behavioral Lab, Universidad Loyola AndalucíaAbstract 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.https://doi.org/10.1186/s13690-023-01030-5Age of menarcheSelf-reportGuessingPrediction accuracy |
| spellingShingle | Michela Accerenzi Pablo Brañas-Garza Diego Jorrat Parents' knowledge and predictions about the age of menarche: experimental evidence from Honduras Archives of Public Health Age of menarche Self-report Guessing Prediction accuracy |
| title | Parents' knowledge and predictions about the age of menarche: experimental evidence from Honduras |
| title_full | Parents' knowledge and predictions about the age of menarche: experimental evidence from Honduras |
| title_fullStr | Parents' knowledge and predictions about the age of menarche: experimental evidence from Honduras |
| title_full_unstemmed | Parents' knowledge and predictions about the age of menarche: experimental evidence from Honduras |
| title_short | Parents' knowledge and predictions about the age of menarche: experimental evidence from Honduras |
| title_sort | parents knowledge and predictions about the age of menarche experimental evidence from honduras |
| topic | Age of menarche Self-report Guessing Prediction accuracy |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13690-023-01030-5 |
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