HUBUNGAN HYGIENE MENSTRUASI DENGAN KEJADIAN PRURITUS VULVA PADA REMAJA PUTRI

Abstract

Pruritus vulva is a complaint that is still commonlyexperienced by most women associated withreproductive health characterized by itching in thepubic area during menstruation (Kenny, 2014).Based on preliminary study at Pondok PesantrenManba'ul Hikam Ketengan Burneh there are stillmany female students who have vulvar pruritus of20 (77%) respondents. The purpose of this studywas to analyze the relationship of menstrualhygiene with pruritus occurrence of vulva inadolescent girls at Pondok Pesantren Manba'ulHikam Ketengan, Burneh District, BangkalanDistrict.This research uses analytic design withcorrelational approach (cross sectional).Independent variable of menstrual hygiene anddependent variable pruritus vulva. The populationof 26 young women in Pondok PesantrenManba'ul Hikam Ketengan Burneh who haveexperienced menstruation. Sampling probabilitysampling technique with simple random samplingtechnique. The research instrument is aquestionnaire. The results were analyzed usingstatistic test somers'd with α = 0.05 The results showed almost 12 (46%) ofrespondents had less menstrual hygiene andmost 77% had pruritic vulva. The results of thestatistical test of Somers' d obtained P value = accepted which means there is a relationshipbetween menstrual hygiene with vulvar pruritusoccurrence in adolescent girls at Pondok PesntrenManba'ul Hikam Ketengan Burneh. Efforts to reduce the occurrence of vulvarpruritus in young women during menstruation is tomaintain healthy reproductive organs andmaintain the cleanliness of female organs sinceearly, especially during menstruation.