THE INFLUENCE PSYCHOEDUCATION ON MENSTRUAL CARE TOWARDS MENSTRUAL PERSONAL HYGIENE ON FEMALE TEENAGERS WITH MENTAL RETARDATION

Abstract

Cognitive obstacle experienced by female teenagers with mental retardation and limited information about health reproduction made them hard to take care themselves whenever they got menstruation. That is why they need simple health education about menstruation care. This is a pre experiment study with no control group. Samples on this study were 26 female teenagers with mental retardation who had experienced menstruation. The sampling method used total sampling. The paired t-test showed significance value at 0.000 (p<0.05). there was an effect health education about menstruation care with personal hygiene on female teenagers with mental retardation at SLB Putra Bangsa. Surabaya