PERBEDAAN GANGGUAN MENSTRUASI PADA PEMAKAIAN KONTRASEPSI SUNTIK SATU BULANAN DAN TIGA BULANAN KARYA TULIS ILMIAH

Many kinds of contraception used for preventing pregnancy. One of them is hormonal contraception. It is available in many variants. One of these variants is one-month injection containing estrogen and progresterone and three-month injection containing only progesterone. One thing that is frequently complained by injection acceptor is the disturbance of menstruation. The objective of the research is to figure out the difference of the disorder of menstruation' undergone by one-month injection acceptor and three-month injection acceptor. This research uses consecutive sampling and prospective cohort study. Women in productive ages who are using one- month and three-month injection contraception is the subject of this research. the instrument to collect the data is questionnaire. The data analysis uses the chi-square. Based on the chi-square analysis, the writer finds significant difference of menstruation disturbance between one-month injection acceptors and three-month injection acceptors (p 0,000) The using of three-month injection has greater risk to the changes of menstruation cycle length (RR 1,833),the period of bleeding (3,429), the disturbance of much blood produced in menstruation (RR 2,750), and the uncharacteristic undergoing of menstruation (RR 4,800).