TINGKAT PENGETAHUAN WANITA USIA 40 - 55 TAHUN TENTANG PERUBAHAN FISIK PADA MASA MENOPAUSE DI PUSKESMAS KOWEL (KOTA) PAMEKASAN

Main Author: Shalehah, Faridatus
Format: Thesis NonPeerReviewed
Terbitan: , 2005
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Online Access: http://eprints.umm.ac.id/18709/
Daftar Isi:
  • Menopause term is a natural change occurs on women in 40 - 55 years old where on the term there are physical change, social and psychological disturbance. In addition, menopause problem is an important problem in women?s life because they fell free of contraception, sexual relation, etc; however, nowadays women will be worred which it is confused with feeling and myth about menopause. Impact of this worried feeling can be prevented by having high knowledge so that women can understand and accept menopause term well. This research has purpose to know eomen?s knowledge level in 40 - 55 years old about physical change on menopause term. This research has advantage to maintain/increase knowledge about physical change on menopause term so that they will have positive attitude. Method in this research is desriptive method with accidental sampling of women in 40 - 55 years old whom have been on menopause term, totaled 62 respondents. It uses quantitative score method. After the research had been done, it is obtained that women?s knowledge level about physical change on menopause term is 76,5% in good category.