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khosravi S, Sadeghi N, Mousavi M S. Effect of Mother's Group Discussion on Puberty Health Education on Knowledge and Practice of Adolescent Girls about Puberty Health. JSSU 2020; 28 (9) :3076-3085
URL: http://jssu.ssu.ac.ir/article-1-4971-en.html

Methods: The present study was a quasi-experimental interventional study with a pre-test-post-test design with the control group. In this study, two schools were randomly selected and 40 students from each school were selected as a sample. Group discussion sessions with the mothers participated in a circular manner were held during 4 sessions for each intervention group once a week for 40 minutes for a month. In this study, the standard questionnaire of Alizadeh Cherandabi et al (2014) was used to measure the knowledge and performance of the students. T-test was used to compare the mean scores of variables before and after the intervention. All statistical operations were performed by SPSS Version 16 software and the significance level was considered P <0.05.
Results: The results of independent t-test showed that before the intervention, the mean scores of knowledge and practice about puberty health were not significantly different between the two groups (P> 0.05). The intervention was significantly higher than the control group (P <0.05).
 Conclusion: The analysis of the findings of this study confirmed the effectiveness of education through group discussion in promoting the knowledge and practice of adolescent girls about physical puberty health.  Therefore, officials, health educators and school counselors are advised to hold regular training sessions as a group discussion for mothers of teenage girls