THE BEHAVIOR OF MENSTRUAL HYGIENE MANAGEMENT OF ADOLESCENT GIRLS WITH MENTAL DISABILITIES IN YOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA Masta Hutasoit1,2*, Devi Nalappan3, Erlina Abdullah4
2PhD Student in Nursing, Lincoln University College, Malaysia
*2Lecturer, Bachelor of Nursing, Jenderal Achmad Yani University Yogyakarta, Indonesia
*3Lecturer, Faculty of Health Science, Lincoln University College, Malaysia
4Lecturer, Faculty of Health Science, Lincoln University College, Malaysia
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Background: Physically, adolescents with intellectual disabilities just like other adolescents both experience menstruation as a marker of their entering the stage of puberty. The difference is, adolescent girls with intellectual disabilities have below normal intelligence, which causes them to have difficulty in adapting and practicing hygiene during menstruation. Menstrual hygiene management needs to be applied to prevent the emergence of infections in reproduction due to negligence in maintaining the cleanliness of the female area, especially during menstruation. Young women with intellectual disabilities in the menstrual phase certainly have difficulties when practicing menstrual hygiene behavior.
Purpose: to know the incidence of behaviour of menstrual hygiene in adolescent girls with mental dissabilities.
Method: This study is a descriptive non-experimental quantitative research. Respondents were mentally disabled adolescent gils who had experienced menstruation as many as 30 respondents who were taken by total sampling. Research instrument with questioner measuring instrument behaviour menstrual hygiene management. The data analysis used was univariate analysis using frequency distribution.
Results: The results showed that the age of adolescent girls with mental disabilities was mostly 56.7% 16-18 years old, 60%, Education Most of them were in junior high school 66.7% of adolescents had received information about menstrual hygiene by 60%, and 40% of the information was obtained from mothers. Menstrual hygiene behavior is in the range of 53.3%.
Conclusion: Menstrual hygiene management behavior in adolescent girls with intellectual disabilities in SLB N 1 Bantul is mostly included in the sufficient category, which is 53.3%.