Pengetahuan dan Minat Penggunaan Menstrual Cup pada Mahasiswi Kesehatan Masyarakat Universitas Airlangga

Abstract

Background: Menstrual cup is the alternative menstrual products used by women. However, menstrual cup is still taboo in Indonesia because women have concerns about using them.Objective: The study aimed to describe and to see the relationship between knowledge about menstrual cup and interest of using among students of Public Health Universitas Airlangga.Method: The study used analytic observational with students of Public Health year 2018 Universitas Airlangga as the population. The study used simple random sampling with a total of 65 samples. Results and Discussion: A total of 55.4% respondents had good knowledge about menstrual cup and 72,3% were not interested in using menstrual cup. The Chi-Square test showed that p-value 0.301 > 0.05.Conclusion: Knowledge about menstrual cup were good but interest in using menstrual cup was low. There was no relationship between knowledge and interest of using menstrual cup. Keywords: interest of using; knowledge; menstrual cup