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Personal hygiene behavior is still considered less important among teenagers. This is due to teenagers' lack of knowledge regarding personal hygiene, so that personal hygiene behavior is difficult to implement in everyday life. Objective : To determine the relationship between knowledge and personal hygiene behavior during menstruation among young women at the Al-Quran and Conscience Islamic Boarding School in 2023. Method : This research is quantitative with a cross-sectional method. The population of this study was 132 people. Sampling in this study used the Total Sampling Technique. This research was conducted at the Al-Quran and Conscience Islamic Boarding School in 2023. Results : Statistical tests using the Chi-Square test resulted in a p-value of 0.000. smaller than 0.05 means that Ho is rejected and Ha is accepted. Conclusion : There is a relationship between knowledge and personal hygiene behavior during menstruation among young women at the Al-Quran and Conscience Islamic Boarding School in 2023.

Adolescence is a period of transition between childhood and adulthood which begins at the time of sexual maturity, namely between the ages of 11 or 12 to 20 years. Adolescence and menstruation are very closely related because menstruation is one of the important problems for teenage girls. This study aims to determine the relationship between the level of knowledge and attitudes of adolescents with anxiety about facing menarche in class VII students at Makale Tana Toraja Catholic Middle School.    The research design used is descriptive analytic. Using the Cross Sectional method. With a total of 29 samples using proportional stratified random sampling technique. The analysis method was carried out using univariate and bivariate analysis methods using the Chi-square statistical test with a significance level of p-value <0.005.   Research shows that there is no relationship between knowledge and anxiety about facing menarche with a p-value꞊0.668>0.05 and there is no relationship between attitudes and anxiety about facing menarche with a p-value꞊0.207>0.05. It can be concluded that there is no relationship between teenagers' knowledge and attitudes and anxiety about facing menarche at Makale Tana Toraja Catholic Middle School. The suggestion in this research is that it is hoped that teachers, especially BK (Guidance Counseling) teachers, should further improve the provision of information and guidance to their students regarding healthy behavior in dealing with menstruation and menstrual disorders.

Adolescent girls during puberty will experience menstruation. If they cannot properly care for their reproductive organs during menstruation, it will cause several health problems, one of which is pruritus vulvae. Pruritus Vulvae occurs due to poor hygiene practices, to increase knowledge and attitudes of young women, researchers provide Lecture Methods and Peer Group Discussions about personal hygiene during menstruation in preventing Pruritus Vulvae.Objective: to see the effect of a combination of lecture methods and peer group discussions on knowledge and attitudes about personal hygiene during menstruation in preventing pruritus vulvae in young women at. Methods: and Peer Group Discussions about personal hygiene during menstruation in preventing Pruritus Vulvae.: The research design used was a quasy experiment. The analytical survey conducted in this study used the one group pre-test post-test approach design. The population is class VII students. Sampling was taken by purposive sampling, the sample size in this study was 30 young women. Data were collected using a questionnaire before and after being given the lecture method and peer group discussion of the knowledge instrument using the Guttman scale and the attitude instrument using the Likert scale and analyzed using the wilcoxon signed rank test. Result : The result of the study showed that the marginal homogeneity tes was obtained at knowledge p=0,000 and attitudes obtained a significant value p=0,003 in the post test. Suggestion : The lecture method and peer group discussion have a significant effect on the level of knowledge and attitudes of young women in preventing pruritus vulvae. The result showed that lecture methods and peer group discussions can be used us a means of health education to change health behavior for the better and can improve the hygiene of young women during menstruation in preventing pruritus vulvae.

The menstrual period is the initial door for young women to know about reproductive organs. One that steals attention is related to maintaining the outer feminine area known as vulva hygiene. The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between knowledge and attitudes towards vulva hygiene behavior in adolescent girls in class X with the population is 90 people. This type of research is a correlation descriptive quantitative research. With the type design is a cross sectional. Bivariat analyze that using spearman – rank, with the result therea are correlation between knowladge level and attitude is ( p – value – 0,000) and nothing corellation beetween attitude with behaviour is ( p – value = 0, 114 ) . the cunclution is : there are correlation between knowladge level and attitude and nothing correlation between attitude with bevaviour vulva hygiene in adolescent girl durig menstruation in class X

The lack of reproductive health knowledge about personal hygiene during menstruation among young women, obtained from parents and schools, causes the knowledge and behavior of young women about personal hygiene during menstruation to be very lacking. One effort to increase knowledge of adolescent reproductive health is by providing health education using poster media. The aim is to determine the effect of poster media education on female students' knowledge of personal hygiene during menstruation at the Assalam Islamic boarding school, in Manado City. The method used in this research was pre-experimental with a one-group pretest-posttest design approach. The sample taken was 18 subjects using purposive sampling. Data collection uses questionnaire sheets and SAP (Extension Event Unit). The collected data was processed using test. Statistical tests use the McNemar Test with a significance level of ≤ 0.05. The research results obtained a value of p = 0.000 (α ≤ 0.05) so that Ha was accepted, meaning that there was an influence of poster media education on female  students' knowledge of personal hygiene during menstruation at the Assalam Islamic Boarding School, Manado City. The conclusion based on the research results is that there is an influence of poster media education on female students' knowledge of personal hygiene during menstruation at the Assalam Islamic Boarding School, Manado City. Suggestions for future researchers can use other media as comparison material so that they can add more information