The Experience of Young Women Living in a Prostitution Area in Maintaining Their Reproductive Health

Abstract

Young women face a difficult situation when they live in a prostitution area or red light district. A phenomenological approach was applied to explore the experiences in maintaining reproductive health of 10 young women living in the prostitution area in Lampung, one of the provinces in Sumatra. Thematic content analysis found 7 themes including: (1) The participants' perception of prostitution as a place of naughty women and free sexual activity that can transmit STDs and influence adolescent psychology; (2) The ways the participants kept their reproductive organs healthy were through maintaining friendships, maintaining personal hygiene, avoiding free sexual activity, eating healthy food, and having routine medical checkups; (3) Information support was gained from family, health workers, media, and teachers; (4) Emotional support from family and friends; (5) Barriers to maintaining good health were inaccessible health facilities and an underfunded health service; (6) The needs of the participants were reproductive health services and clean environment; (7) The participants hoped for health education and intensive health services with friendly nurses. The results of this research illustrate that there is a need for socializing intensive ways to maintain reproductive health, especially in a risky environment.

Improving Female Adolescents’ Knowledge, Emotional Response, and Attitude toward Menarche following Implementation of Menarcheal Preparation Reproductive Health Education

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“…This also feeds the feeling that menstruation is a taboo and an embarrassment that should not be discussed and instead, kept secret (Jackson & Falmagne, 2013). As a result, at the onset of menstruation, females may exhibit negative emotion responses, attitudes, and behaviors (Tang, Yeung, & Lee, 2004), especially in the communities in risk areas such as villages or prostitute localization (Dovis, Setyowati, & Kurniawati, 2017).…”

The Effect of Emotional Intelligence Education on the Prevention of Adolescent Delinquency in Indonesia

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“…Adolescence is a transitional period between childhood and adulthood. 14 The task of adolescent development is to leave childish behavior and strive to achieve the ability to behave and behave in an adult manner. 20 Adolescents have unique characteristics that tend to show sensitivity to external stimuli and tend to show exaggerated responses, they are easily irritated, crybaby, but are also quick to feel happy and explosive, control over themselves is more difficult, tend to get angry easily in fewer ways natural.…”

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