<![CDATA[Women menstruate at varying ages, making it difficult for adolescent girls to describe what is going on with their bodies. They are unprepared and unable to manage their menstruation appropriately due to the limited source of information they receive. As a result, teenage girls experience anxiety symptoms such as fear, anxiety, and discomfort. Anxiety can be decreased by giving the female students sufficient education associated with reproductive health prior to menarche via video media, presentations, discussions, and questions and answers. In this study, an experimental strategy was being used, with a pre-experimental design and a pretest and posttest one-group design. Because the study was conducted on variables for which no data was available, the process had to be modified by providing particular treatments to the research subjects, which were then observed and measured. 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