Abstract
Introduction: Menarche can affect the physical and psychological changes of a young woman; one of them is anxiety. The purpose of this research was to know the relationship between knowledge, mother's support, and peer support with adolescent's anxiety in confronting menarche.Methods: This study was an analytic correlational-cross sectional design. The population is a fourth-grade student of Elementary School Rungkut Menanggal 1, Rungkut Menanggal 2, and Rungkut Kidul 1 school year 2018/2019, which has not experienced menarche, totaling 148 students. The respondents were 108 students that had been recruited by the Random Sampling method with slovin formula. The Independent variables are knowledge, maternal support, and peer support. The dependent variable was adolescent's anxiety in confronting menarche. The data were collected using a questionnaire, analyzed using the spearmen rank correlation test.Results: The result of statistical test showed that knowledge (r = -0.626 p = 0.018), mother’s support (r = -0.725 p = 0.000) and peer support (r = -0.581 p = 0.000) correlated with the anxiety of adolescent’s anxiety in confronting menarche.Conclusion: Knowledge, mother's support, and peer support can reduce adolescent's anxiety in confronting menarche because it can be used as a provision to prepare for menstruation.
Highlights
Menarche can affect the physical and psychological changes of a young woman; one of them is anxiety
The result of statistical test showed that knowledge (r = -0.626 p = 0.018), mother’s support (r = -0.725 p = 0.000) and peer support (r = 0.581 p = 0.000) correlated with the anxiety of adolescent’s anxiety in confronting menarche
Knowledge, mother's support, and peer support can reduce adolescent's anxiety in confronting menarche because it can be used as a provision to prepare for menstruation
Summary
Menarche can affect the physical and psychological changes of a young woman; one of them is anxiety. The purpose of this research was to know the relationship between knowledge, mother's support, and peer support with adolescent's anxiety in confronting menarche. Adolescence is the stage of a person where adolescents are in the phase of children to adults characterized by physical, behavioral, cognitive, biological and emotional changes that have an age range between 10 to 19 years and are not married (Effendi and Makhfudli, 2011). Young women will go through a phase where young women will reach the maturity stage of sexual organs that have the ability to reproduce called puberty. Puberty in adolescent girls can be characterized by hormonal changes that cause the arrival of menstruation for the first time or what is. The age of menarche in developing countries, including Indonesia, has experienced a shift in age from the initial age of 16-17 years to the age of 12-13 years (Rasjidi, 2010)
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