Literature Review Tentang Pendidikan Kesehatan Untuk Meningkatkan Pengetahuan Personal Hygiene Menstruasi Pada Remaja

Authors

  • Lilis Purwaningsih Program Studi Diploma Tiga Keperawatan, Universitas Muhammadiyah Pekajangan Pekalongan, Indonesia
  • I Isytiaroh Program Studi Diploma Tiga Keperawatan, Universitas Muhammadiyah Pekajangan Pekalongan, Indonesia
  • Windha Widyastuti Program Studi Diploma Tiga Keperawatan, Universitas Muhammadiyah Pekajangan Pekalongan, Indonesia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48144/prosiding.v1i.719

Abstract

Abstract
Good understanding of menstrual hygiene management (MHM) is essential for women since uterus is susceptible to infection. Insufficient understanding of MHM may lead yound women to various problems such as unpleasant vaginal odour, Leukorrhea, and Urinary Tract Infections (UTI). Health education is an effort to provide information about health in order to change people behavior to achieve better quality of life. The purpose of this study was to determine the improvement of young women understanding of MHM before and after being given health education. This study was a literature review of three articles taken from the Google Scholar with “young women”, “personal hygiene”, and “menstruation” as the keywords, in the form of fulltext articles, and published during 2012-2020. The total number of the respondents from the three articles was 170. The results showed that after being given health education, the respondents’ understanding level of MHM increased from 7%-55%. In conclusion, health education could improve young women’s understanding level of MHM. Therefore, health care providers are suggested to conduct health education to improve the understanding of MHM to young women.
Keywords: menstruation, knowledge, young women

Abstrak
Personal hygiene yang baik pada saat menstruasi sangat diperlukan karena rahim mudah terkena infeksi. Dampak yang ditimbulkan apabila remaja putri tidak memperhatikan hygiene pada daerah kewanitaannya, antara lain muncul bau yang tidak sedap, keputihan dan berkembangnya bakteri yang dapat menimbulkan infeksi saluran kemih. Literature review ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui perbedaan pengetahuan remaja tentang personal hygiene sebelum dan sesudah diberikan pendidikan kesehatan.Desain karya tulis ilmiah berupa literature review. Hasil penelitian terdapat perbedaannilai pengetahuan baik sebelum dilakukan pendidikan kesehatan adalah 7% dan sesudah pendidikan kesehatan nilai pengetahuan baik menjadi 55%. Simpulannya pendidikan kesehatan dapat meningkatkan pengetahuan remaja mengenai personal hygiene ketika menstruasi.Saran bagi tenaga kesehatan agar melakukan pendidikan kesehatan untuk meningkatkan pengetahuan remaja mengenai personal hygiene ketika menstruasi.
Kata kunci: Menstruasi; pengetahuan; remaja

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Published

2021-12-01