Article Sidebar
Main Article Content
Abstract
Introduction: Poor vulvar hygiene behaviour during menstruation can cause pruritus vulvae symptoms such as an itching sensation that triggers the urge to scratch. Pruritus vulvae can be caused by a variety of factors including bacterial and fungal infections that can develop if vulvar hygiene behaviour is not performed properly. It can also be caused by irritation from feminine products that contain chemicals. The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between vulvar hygiene behaviour during menstruation and symptoms of pruritus vulvae in adolescent girls at SMP eLKISI Kab. Mojokerto. Methods: Analytical research design with a cross sectional approach. Sample size of 40 adolescent girls with consecutive sampling technique. The instrument used was a questionnaire. The independent variable in this study was vulva hygiene behaviour during menstruation and the dependent variable was pruritus vulvae symptoms. Results: Data analysis using Fisher's Exact Test with a significance p value of 0.003 < ɑ 0.05 shows that there is a relationship between vulvar hygiene behaviour during menstruation with pruritus vulvae symptoms in adolescent girls at SMP eLKISI Kab. Mojokerto. Adolescent girls have sufficient vulvar hygiene behaviour during menstruation 20 adolescents (50.0%), and adolescent girls who experience moderate pruritus vulvae symptoms 19 adolescents (47.5%). Conclusion: So the better the behaviour of vulvar hygiene during menstruation in adolescent girls, the lighter the level of pruritus vulvae symptoms. However, vulvar hygiene behaviour during menstruation is not the only factor affecting the occurrence of pruritus vulvae symptoms. Therefore, it is expected that young women always maintain the health of their female areas.
Keywords
Article Details
Copyright (c) 2025 Catur Dewi (Author)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
All peer-reviewed accepted submissions in The Open Nursing Journal meeting high research and ethical standards are published with free access to all. The funding agencies or institutes of the authors pay the Article Processing Charge (APC) to enable open-access publication. Articles are licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode) which permits unrestricted distribution and reproduction in any medium, as long as the work is properly credited/attributed. Authors who publish in this journal retain copyright to their work. It is a condition of publication that manuscripts submitted to this journal have not been published and will not be simultaneously submitted or published elsewhere. The criteria for Open Access as stated by most of the indexing services including, but not limited to, the Directory of Open Access Journal (DOAJ).
Advantages of Open Access
- Readers can study, download, and/or print Open Access articles without paying any cost.
- Articles are immediately made available in open access mode (without embargo period).
- If a correct attribution or citation of the original publication is provided, reuse of published content is permitted without seeking permission.
The author will have the right to:
- Reproduce the article.
- Incorporate the article into one or more collective works.
- Reproduce the article as incorporated in collective works.
- Create and reproduce Derivative Works for educational purposes.