PENGARUH PENDIDIKAN KESEHATAN TERHADAP PERSEPSI REMAJA PUTRI TENTANG PENCEGAHAN KEPUTIHAN DI SMP NEGERI 1 KASIHAN BANTUL YOGYAKARTA DAN SMP NEGERI 2 KASIHAN BANTUL YOGYAKARTA
Abstract
Background: Leucorrheais one of the problems that might occur to female teenagers who have
got their period. Perception is an important thing to prevent white discharge in teenagers.
Health education can be conducted to enhance the perception.
Purpose: This study aims to discover the effect of health education on female teenager
perception of preventing white discharge.
Research method: This study is a quacy-experimental pre-test post-test with control group
design. The sampling technique was non probability sampling using purposive sampling method.
There were 136 populations in this study. However, there were only 25% or 34 respondents that
were obtained as research samples.
Research result: The result of statistical test analysis using Wilcoxon test on experiment group
shows that p value = 0.607 and on control group, p value = 0.936. The result of Mann-Whitney
test shows that p value = 0.188 (p =>0.05).
Conclusion: There is no significant effect of giving health education on female teenagers’
perception of preventing white discharge in SMP Negeri 1 Kasihan Bantul Yogyakarta and SMP
Negeri 2 Kasihan Bantul Yogyakarta.