Toward Knowledge and Attitude of Elementary School Students About Menstruation in Bengkulu City

Abstract

Menarche is the arrival of the first menstruation in a woman. The age of the first menstrual menstruation occurs at the age of 12 to 14 years, the earlier the age of menstruation will affect the readiness of a woman in the face of menarche. Lack of knowledge about menarche will have an impact on the attitude of students in the face of the arrival of the first menstruation, so students who experience menarche earlier will show negative feelings towards the first menstruation. The purpose of this study was to see the effect of education through booklets and demonstrations on students' knowledge and attitudes about menstruation. This type of research is a quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest with a control group. The samples in this study were students aged 10-12 years who had not experienced menstruation, a simple random sampling technique. The number of respondents 60 people consisted of 30 intervention groups who were given booklets and 30 control groups who were given demonstrations. The results showed there was an influence of education with the booklet in increasing students' knowledge and attitudes about menstruation with p-value < 0.05. Suggestions for increasing students' knowledge and attitudes towards health information can be used by the booklet method because it is more interesting to learn and can be read over and over again.

Keywords: Booklet, Demonstration, Knowledge, Attitude, Student

DOI: 10.7176/RHSS/10-6-02

Publication date:March 31^st 2020