DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2017.v05i06.058

Pages: 2359-2364

Boys and girls in Indian scenario have different experience during growing years including adolescence due to vast social and cultural differences in their conduct. The present study is aimed to compare the growth standard parameters, among rural and urban adolescent girls and its relationship to various menstrual burdens in term of irregularities, hygiene, awareness to contraception and diseases etc. In the study 500 adolescent girls with age range from10 yrs to 19 years were taken (250 from rural and 250 from urban population). It is seen that most of the urban girls belong to high socioeconomic category with high growth parameter as compared to rural girls. As per the BMI the urban girls are little high overweight than rural girls. The urban girls show early development of secondary sexual character compared to rural girls.