UPAYA PENINGKATAN PENGETAHUAN REMAJA PUTRI TENTANG MENARCHE DI SDN 1 SINDANGSARI KABUPATEN PANGANDARAN

Sari

ABSTRACT

World data of 76.3% of the world's adolescent population states that the population of young women mostly experiences stress during menarche. Other data shows as many as 54% of young women get anxiety when menarche cannot do activities as usual with their peers. The average age of menarche in Indonesia is 13 years, with the incidence earlier at the age of less than 9 years or later until the age of 17 years. Menarche that is too early or late, can result in the mental state of these adolescents. Teens who will experience menarche need good mental readiness. The purpose of this community service is to increase teenage girl’s knowledge about menarche. The target of this activity is teenage girl  grade IV-VI who have not experienced menarche. The method used is health education. To identify the knowledge of young women about menarche before and after health education, pre-test and post-test were carried out. The results showed that most of them had sufficient knowledge (56.7%) prior to health education. After the implementation of health education, most of them had good knowledge (53.3%). It can be seen the average value before health education (56.8%) and after health education (78.1%). This shows an increase of 21.3%.