HUBUNGAN PERSONAL HYGIENE DAN PENGETAHUAN REMAJA PUTRI DALAM MENJAGA KEBERSIHAN ALAT GENETALIA DENGAN KEJADIAN KEPUTIHAN DI SMA N 9 PALEMBANG

Abstract

In Indonesia based on BKKN data in 2011 as much as 75% of women had experienced a whitish at least once in their life and 45% of them can experience vaginal discharge twice or more. Based on preliminary data obtained from some students of science and social science classes in SMA N 9 Palembang, the results obtained that many students who claim to experience vaginal discharge. The purpose of this study to determine the relationship of personal hygiene and knowledge of young women in maintaining the cleanliness of genetic tools with a whitish incident at high school students N 9 Palembang. The research design used is quantitative research that is an analytic survey with Cross-Sectional design, sampling in this research is done by random sampling technique and systematic random sampling method with 138 samples. The result of Chi-square test shows that there is a relationship of personal hygiene with the occurrence of leucorrhoea with p value = 0,016 (p value ≤ α = 0,05) and there is a significant relation between the relationship of knowledge of young woman with the incidence of leucorrhea with p value = 0,007 (p value ≤α = 0,05). Thus it can be concluded that there are still many young women who experience whiteness in SMA N 9 Palembang in 2015. Therefore it is expected to improve health services and counseling about reproductive health, especially whitish, if experiencing abnormal vaginal discharge, immediately conduct checks to health services .