Introduction: India has one of the fastest growing youth populations in the world, with an estimated 190 million adolescents. Girls below 19 yrs of age comprise one quarter of India’s rapidly growing population. Adolescence is the period of transition from childhood to adulthood. One of the physiological changes that takes place in adolescent girl is onset of menarche which is usually associated with a number of conditions among which is stress, an usually experienced by the young girl. Aim and Objective. A study to assess stress experiences during the menstruation among school going adolescent girls in selected schools of pune city. To assess the Stress experienced during menstruation among the school going adolescent girls. To associate the findings with the selected demographic data Method: In this present study the researcher selected An Exploratory Non-Experimental design. Keeping in the view objectives of the study, the researcher observed the groups during the treatment. The sample was selected from the English medium School of Pune city. Responses to the structured questionnaire covering various stress (physiological and psychological) symptoms were obtained from 150 participants. The participants were of age group ranging from 11 years and 16 years. Results: It was found that out of the 150 participants, 46.6% of the adolescent school going girls are showing the moderate/average level of stress (physiological & psychological) experiences and 43.3 % of the adolescent school going girls are showing the mild /low level of stress (physiological & psychological) experiences.10.1% of the adolescent school going girls are showing the severe/high level of stress (physiological & psychological) experiences. Conclusion: The study shows that there is significant difference in the level of stress in percentage distribution among the adolescent girls. Since there are reports of stress experiences hampers the daily routines, as seen in the study it is essential that awareness programmes need to be conducted to address the importance of managing the issues by pharmacological and non-pharmacological methods.
