Correlation Between Knowledge, Mother's Support, Peer Support with Anxiety to Confront Menarche among Adolescents at Elementary school: A Correlational Study

Abstract

Introduction: Menarche can affect the physical and psychological changes of a young woman; one of them is anxiety. The purpose of this research was to know the relationship between knowledge, mother's support, and peer support with adolescent's anxiety in confronting menarche.Methods: This study was an analytic correlational-cross sectional design. The population is a fourth-grade student of Elementary School Rungkut Menanggal 1, Rungkut Menanggal 2, and Rungkut Kidul 1 school year 2018/2019, which has not experienced menarche, totaling 148 students. The respondents were 108 students that had been recruited by the Random Sampling method with slovin formula. The Independent variables are knowledge, maternal support, and peer support. The dependent variable was adolescent's anxiety in confronting menarche. The data were collected using a questionnaire, analyzed using the spearmen rank correlation test.Results: The result of statistical test showed that knowledge (r = -0.626 p = 0.018), mother’s support (r = -0.725 p = 0.000) and peer support (r = -0.581 p = 0.000) correlated with the anxiety of adolescent’s anxiety in confronting menarche.Conclusion: Knowledge, mother's support, and peer support can reduce adolescent's anxiety in confronting menarche because it can be used as a provision to prepare for menstruation.

Dukungan Sosial dan Ketersediaan Informasi Mempengaruhi Kesiapan Remaja Putri dalam Menghadapi Menarche

“…Beberapa penelitian sebelumnya tentang kesiapan menghadapi menarche lebih banyak dilakukan di lingkungan perkotaan atau pedesaan, tapi belum ada yang membahas di lingkungan pondok pesantren (Fauziyah et al, 2020;Hanifah et al, 2020;Lutfiya, 2017;Nurmawati & Erawantini, 2018;Setyawati et al, 2019).. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah mempelajari pengaruh dukungan sosial (social support) dan ketersediaan informasi (accessibility of information) terhadap kesiapan remaja putri dalam menghadapi menarche di pondok pesantren.…”

“…Dukungan dari masyarakat sekitar mempengaruhi perilaku individu. Dukungan dari ibu dan teman sebaya dapat menjadi bekal bagi remaja putri dalam menghadapi menarche (Fauziyah et al, 2020).…”

“…Kalau anak perempuan pra-remaja sudah diberitahu tentang menstruasi sebelum ia benarbenar mengalaminya mungkin ia akan gembira ketika saat itu tiba karena dengan demikian ia menapak ke arah kedewasaan. Mereka yang tidak pernah mendapatkan keterangan apa-apa tentang menstruasi bisa ketakutan ataupun mengalami kecemasan ketika melihat darah mulai keluar dari vagina (Fauziyah et al, 2020;Rachmawati & Oktaviani, 2017).…”

Health Education and Training for Adolescent Girls in Facing Menarche

“…Adolescent girls who do not have their mothers' support often feel unprepared for their first menstruation (Chandra-Mouli & Patel, 2017). Anxiety can occur in adolescent girls who experience menstruation for the first time (menarche), because of ignorance and the pain they feel (Fauziyah et al, 2020;Rachmawati & Oktaviani, 2017). Besides that, adolescence is also a period of transition from childhood to adulthood, so that the psyche is also in a stage of development and is relatively unstable.…”