Tingkat Pengetahuan tentang Sindrom Premenstruasi dan Penanganan Sindrom Premenstruasi

Abstract

Background: Adolescence is a period of a child turned into an adult. Adolescence women two years
earlier than men. Data pornography, the adolescent is a large population than the population of the
word. WHO and some other word body called on all countries of Southeast Asia to provide its
commitment to observe and protect the needs of adolescents and information, skills, service, and safe
environment and supportive of essential reproductive health. The reproductive period in the life of a
woman who started from menarche until menopause occurs. The menstrual period they are
sometimes accompanied by disturbances such as premenstrual syndrome (PMS). It is estimated that
80-10% of women do not have PMS, and approximately 25-40% have PMS. Most women experience
PMS symptoms in a long period. The symptoms are of an emotional outburst in the form of anger,
high sensitivity, sad, lonely, until the desire to commit suicide. Is research target is to know the
relation of between level of knowledge of syndrome premenstrual with the handling of syndrome
premenstrual of at adolescent of age 12-15 year in SMP PGRI Bantul.
Methods: The study was observational analytic with the cross-sectional approach. The samples were
all students SMP PGRI Bantul amounting to 138 students and measuring the level of knowledge and
handling of premenstrual syndrome using questioner. Analysis of data used univariate and bivariate
analysis with chi-square.
Result: There was a relationship between the level of knowledge about premenstrual syndrome with
the handling of premenstrual syndrome in adolescents age 12-15 years in the SMP PGRI Bantul with
the value of P=0,000.
Conclusion: There was a relationship between the level of knowledge about premenstrual syndrome
with the handling of premenstrual syndrome treatment.
Key words: level of knowledge, premenstrual syndrome, adolescent