THE THE INFLUENCE OF PERSONAL HYGIENE EDUCATION DURING MENSTRUATION ON CHANGES IN KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDES OF YOUNG WOMEN

PENGARUH EDUKASI PERSONAL HYGIENE SAAT MENSTRUASI TERHADAP PERUBAHAN PENGETAHUAN DAN SIKAP REMAJA PUTRI

Abstract

ABSTRAC

Personal Hygiene Education is an activity of providing health education about efforts to maintain personal health, especially during menstruation. The education contains personal hygiene of the reproductive organs, providing knowledge about how to properly clean the reproductive organs during menstruation so that they can respond properly and correctly to the menstrual period. Poor personal hygiene during menstruation can be caused by a lack of knowledge about the importance of maintaining the cleanliness of the reproductive organs during menstruation.

Objective: To determine the effect of providing personal hygiene education during menstruation on changes in knowledge and attitudes of young women at SMPN 5 Mandai. This study aims to increase the knowledge and attitudes of young women regarding personal hygiene during menstruation

Methods: Researchers used a type of quantitative research with a quasy experimental method (pre-post test design) using a qusioner. Data analysis with Homogeneity of variance test, chi-square test, Mann-Whitney test and Wilcoxon test.

Results: The results showed that education related to personal hygiene had an effect on changes in knowledge <0.001 (<0.05) and attitudes of 0.011 (<0.05) personal hygiene of young women at the Ummul Mukminin Islamic Boarding School, Makassar City as the intervention group.

Conclusion: there is an effect of education on changes in knowledge and attitudes of personal hygiene of female adolescents.

Keywords: Education, personal hygiene, youth, menstruation