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Research Paper: Effect of health education on Menstrual Hygiene and health seeking behavior among Rural and Urban Adolescents
Health information seeking is defined by Tardy and Hale
as the search for and receipt of messages that help ‘‘to reduce uncertainty regarding health status’’ and ‘‘construct a
social and personal (cognitive) sense of health’’.1 Lambert
et al regard seeking information about one’s health as being
increasingly documented as a key coping strategy in healthpromotion activities and psychosocial adjustment to illness.2