The Effect of Health Education about Menstruation on Psychological Readiness of Pre-Adolescent Girls in Facing Menarche

Abstract

Adolescence is a period of transition between age and adulthood, where growth spurts occur, secondary sex-features arise, fertility occurs and better psychological and cognitive conditions, in which girls are marked by the emergence of menstruation (menarche). Menarche is the first menstrual period that occurs during puberty in a woman. In some cases, this accelerated growth can affect a woman's psychological, changes that can occur include or mistakes that often occur. Information that really can be used to improve the ability of young women.Health efforts that can be done to increase knowledge to learn the correct information about menarche for young women, one of which is health promotion through health education. The purpose of this study was to find out the Psychological Impression of Pre-Adolescent Girls (the fifth grade students) Facing Menarche at SDN 02 Sanur, Denpasar. The benefits of this research are as input as a service profession that further enhances service and attention to screening programs for teenagers specifically about menarche. The pre-experimental study was designed with one group pre-test and posttest.This study was involved 23 sample of pre-Adolescent girls (the fifth grade students) of SDN 2 Sanur, Badung, from July -August 2018.The data on pre-Adolescent girls about psychological readinessin facing menarche was assessed before and after intervention (health education) were collected statistically then analyzed. The results of the study concluded that there was a positive effect of health education about menstruation on psychological readinessin facing menarche. This study obtained complete results before and after treatment with a p value of 0,000 (< 0,05). The results of this study are expected to be one of the considerations and evaluations for teachers and principals in programming the adolescent health education for their students.

Probléma vagy ajándék? : Tanítók attitűdvizsgálata a menstruációra való felkészítéssel kapcsolatban

“…Hatalmas a jelentősége tehát annak, hogy a fiatal lányok a menstruációval kapcsolatban pontos és megfelelő ismereteket kapjanak a kellő időben. A megfelelő egészségnevelés pozitív irányba befolyásolhatja a lányok menstruációval kapcsolatos attitűdjét, ami jelentős hatással van az életminőségre (Widiastini & Karuniadi, 2019).…”