Jurnal NERS
Vol. 14 No. 1 (2019): APRIL 2019

Effort to Prevent Anaemia during Menstruation among Female Adolescent in Islamic Boarding School

Esti Yunitasari (Faculty of Nursing Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia)
Praba Diyan Rachmawati (Faculty of Nursing Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia)
Desy Indah Nur Lestari (Faculty of Nursing Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Apr 2019

Abstract

Introduction: Female adolescents are generally prone to be infected by anaemiadue to the growing menstruation cycle which causes the loss of bloods insignificant amount every month and the needs of ferrum substance can bedoubled. The aimed of the research was to analyse factors related to the effort ofanaemia prevention during menstruation among female adolescents in Islamicboarding school.Methods: This research applied correlational descriptive design through theapproach of cross-sectional study. Total samples were 214 female students in 3Islamic boarding schools with criteria of female students aged 11-20 years oldand had experienced menstruation. Sample obtained by random sampling.Independent variables were knowledge, attitude, friends support, health facility,health efforts, and dependent variables was the efforts to prevention anaemia.Data obtained by questionnaire and analyzed by Spearman Rho with significancelevel α,0.005Results: The result showed significant correlation between knowledge (p=0.000;r=0.318). attitude (p=0.001; r=0.232). friends support (p=0.003; r=0.203). health facility (p=0.000; r=0.260). and health efforts (p=0.001; r=0.227) on prevention effort of anaemia on adolescents female menstruation in Islamic boarding school.Conclusion: Level of knowledge, posstive attitude, friends support, health facility,and health efforts can prevent anemia during menstruation. 

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Journal Info

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JNERS

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Subject

Nursing

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The scope of this journal includes studies that intend to examine and understand nursing health care interventions and health policies which utilize advanced nursing research. The journal also committed to improve the high quality research by publishing analytic techniques, measures, and research ...