health education; Menopause; Health Research Abstract

The successfulness of health development in Indonesia has improved the health status that causing at the improvement of Life Expectancy age which hence, creating the increasing number of menopause women Yogyakarta special province occupies the highest life expectancy age (that is 68.35 in the year of 1997) and the climacterium in Indonesia (6.12%).

When inserting menopause age, women will face new problem that is the change of body metabolism, and facing the risk of experiencing health disorders such as heart disease, stroke, cancer and osteoporosis. Prevention effort should be done by having early prevention through knowledge and information regarding health. Health education with speech method that using module is one of the methods that could develop understanding and positive attitude toward health.

This research was aimed to investigate the effectiveness of speech method that using module and without module in improving knowledge and attitude of women in maintaining health in facing the menopause.

This is a quasi experiment with non-equivalent control group design of sample of treatment and control groups or non-randomized control group with pre-test and post-test. This research was located in Gondokusuman sub district and the sample was chosen purposively by sample size formulation (Lemeshow, et al). Characteristic analysis was using chi-square and the statistic test was using t-test with p=0.05.


The result of the research showed that the analysis of variables of age, education, and job of the two groups showed that p>0.05. This meant that the two groups were comparable or proportional. The t-test statistic analysis of the mean value of knowledge and attitude of the two groups in pre-test was significant with p<0.05 and post-test 1 was significant with p<0.05. In addition, the mean value of knowledge and attitude of the two groups in post-test 2 was also significant with p<0.05.

This meant that treatment and control groups were experienced significant improvement of knowledge and attitude. Hence, both of the methods were effective in improving knowledge and attitude. However, the improvement of knowledge and attitude in post-test 2 was higher in-group that given module rather than group that was not given module. If we compare the two groups, the mean value of knowledge and attitude of two groups in pre-test was not significant (p>0.05), in post-test 1 (p>0.05) was not significant and in post-test 2 (p<0.05) was significant. This meant that there was insignificant improvement of the two groups in pre-test and post-test 1, and there was significant improvement of group which given module in post-test 2.

Copyrights:
Copyright © 2001 by Badan Litbang Kesehatan.
Verbatim copying and distribution is permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved.