Kesehatan Reproduksi Remaja Putri di Pondok Pesantren Sidoarjo Jawa Timur

Abstract

Reproductive organ maturation process in adolescence is often prone to health issues. Adolescents spend more time in school, especially when they study in an islamic boarding school. Islamic boarding school is an educational model which is characterized by a dorm with 24 hour interaction pattern among peers. This study aimed to analyze factors associated with adolescent reproductive health in Islamic boarding school female students. This study was conducted on 100 adolescent girls in Darul Falah Center Islamic boarding school during September to October 2012 using questionnaires with proven validity and reliability. Knowledge, attitudes, parent communication, teacher communication, peer communication, source of information were used as the independent variables and reproductive health was used as the dependent variable. All variables were analyzed ini univariabel, bivariable, and multivariable manners. The results of this study show that 68% adolescents had reproductive health problems. There was a significant relationship between knowledge (p=0.022), attitude (p=0.002) and peers communication (p<0.001) factors and adolescent reproductive health with no significant relationship discovered between the reproductive health of adolescents and parent communication (p=0.655), teacher communication (p=0.833), and sources of information (p=0.532). The most influencing factor associated with reproductive health in adolescent girls Islamic boarding school was peer communications (p=0.001). In conclusions, reproductive health problem in Islamic boarding school remains high with inadequate knowledge of reproductive health and low attitude towards reproductive health with peer communication as the most influencing factor.

Keywords

• Adolescent reproductive health
• attitudes
• environment knowledge
• Islamic boarding school