The Relationship Level of Adolescent Knowledge with Personal Hygiene Behavior during Menstruation in Krembangan Jaya South Surabaya

Sari, Erna and PUTRI, RAHMADANIAR ADITYA and Wardani, Erika Martining and Bistara, Difran Nobel (2023) The Relationship Level of Adolescent Knowledge with Personal Hygiene Behavior during Menstruation in Krembangan Jaya South Surabaya. HRJ: Health Research Journal, 1 (2). pp. 35-43. ISSN 2988-3075

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Abstract

Personal hygiene is a health problem that is often ignored by adolescent girls, this is because the incidence of lack of personal hygiene is increasing along with the lack of knowledge of adolescent girls about maintaining their hygiene during menstruation. One of the lack of knowledge on personal hygiene is the laziness to change sanitary napkins every 4 hours in a day. Changes that occur in lack of knowledge of personal hygiene lead to reproductive tract infections and fungal infections. This study aims to analyze the relationship between adolescent knowledge level and personal hygiene behavior during menstruation among adolescent girls in Krembangan Jaya Selatan, Surabaya. This type of research is a correlation with a cross-sectional approach. The population in this study was 60 adolescent girls in Krembangan Jaya Selatan, Surabaya with sampling according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria and using non-probability sampling type purposive sampling obtained 52 respondents. The research was conducted in Krembangan Jaya Selatan Surabaya for 2 weeks in January-February 2023. The data was collected using a questionnaire then processed the data using the spearman rank test. The results showed that the majority of adolescent girls had a good level of knowledge (67.3%) related to personal hygiene during menstruation and personal hygiene behavior in the good category (61.5%). Spearman rank test result of P = 0.000 < α (P value < 0.005) showed that there was a significant relationship between knowledge and personal hygiene behavior during menstruation.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	knowledge, menstruation, personal hygiene
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA773-788 Personal health and hygiene
Divisions:	Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery > Program Study of Nursing Bachelor
Depositing User:	Mr. . Bagas
Date Deposited:	03 Mar 2024 04:52
Last Modified:	03 Mar 2024 04:52
URI:	http://repository.unusa.ac.id/id/eprint/10697

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