PENGARUH PENDIDIKAN KESEHATAN TENTANG HYGIENE SAAT MENSTRUASI TERHADAP TINGKAT PENGETAHUAN SISWI REMAJA PUTRI KELAS VIII DI SMP NEGERI 3 GAMPING SLEMAN YOGYAKARTA

Adolescence is a transition time from children to adult. It is susceptible to health problems. There are many factors influencing the health status of female adolescence, one of them is menstruation hygiene. Information on menstruation hygiene is crucial to be given to female adolescence so that they do not have reproduction system infection. The research aim s to find out the influence of health education on hygiene during menstruation towards level of knowledge of female adolescence students class VIII of SMP N 3 Gamping Sleman Yogyakarta. The method of the research used Quasy Experiment with one group pretest-posttest design that is to find out the relation of cause effect by involving a subject group. The research population was 113 female students class VIII of SMP N 3 Gamping Sleman Yogyakarta. The number of the sample was 38 respondents who were chosen using purposive sampling technique. The data were obtained through questionnaires and then the level of knowledge of female students on menstruation hygiene were measured using ordinal scale and wilcoxon test. The statistical test showed that the level of k nowledge of the female students in pretest were 30 students (78.9%) who had high level of knowledge and 8 respondents (21.1%) who had fair level of knowledge on menstruation hygiene. There was a significant improvement in post test in which 37 respondents (97.4%) showed high level of menstruation hygiene and only 1 showed fair level of menstruation hygiene. It found that there was a meaningful differences between pre-test and post-test value that is p=0.020. The conclusion of the research is that the educa tion on health education on menstruation hygiene can be influence the level of knowledge of female adolescence students