Hubungan Frekuensi Konsumsi dan Jenis Junk Food dengan Siklus Menstruasi pada Mahasiswi Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas Mulawarman

Abstract

Irregular menstrual cycle is one of the most frequent problems among adolescent girls, such as in medical faculty student of Mulawarman University. This study aimed to determine the association between the frequency of consumption and kinds of junk food with menstrual cycle among female student in medical faculty of Mulawarman University. This was an observational analytic study with cross-sectional design. The subject of this study were 66 female students in medical faculty of Mulawarman University and taken non-randomly using the consecutive sampling method. Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ) was used as the instrument to measure the frequency of consumption and kinds of junk food in this study. The result showed that the majority of respondents were 20 years old and getting menarche on 8-14 years old. Most of the respondents have regular menstrual cycle (51,5%), consumed junk food 2-3 days/week (39,4%), and consumed foods made from processed meat or foods that contain high amount of sugar (21,2%). The result of logistic regression test showed that Chi square count less than Chi square table and Sig. more than 0,05. This study concludes that there was no significant correlation between frequency of consumption and kinds of junk food and menstrual cycle.
 
 Keywords: frequency of consumption, kinds of junk food, menstrual cycle

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“…Penelitian yang pernah dilakukan di Beirut, Lebanon tentang prevalensi dan pola gangguan menstruasi terhadap 352 mahasiswi Keperawatan, ditemukan bahwa terdapat 37,5% mahasiswi mengalami polimenorea dan 19,3% mengalami oligomenorea (Karout et al, 2012). Menurut penelitian Manurung et al (2021) pada mahasiswi Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas Mulawarman juga didapatkan hasil sebesar 49,98% mengalami oligomenorea dan 16,6% mengalami polimenorea.…”

“…Hasil penelitian ini sejalan dengan penelitian Manurung et al (2021) yang menyatakan tidak ada hubungan yang signifikan antara frekuensi dan jenis konsumsi junk food dengan siklus menstruasi. Pada penelitian ini ditunjukkan hasil bahwa responden lebih banyak berusia 20 tahun dan memiliki siklus menstruasi yang teratur (51,5%), konsumsi junk food sebanyak 2-3 kali/minggu (39,4%) dan konsumsi produk olahan daging maupun makanan dengan gula yang tinggi (21,2%).…”