Online ISSN: 2515-8260

THE CORRELATION BETWEEN MOTIVATION AND DURATION OF USING IUD AT PRIMARY HEALTH CARE OF LABUHAN HAJI LOMBOK TIMUR

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Supiani , Nurul Hidayatun Jalilah, Dian Susilawati

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IUD is a contraception tool which effective and has long period, but the use of IUD in the Indonesia less interest due to the complicated procedure, should be done by trained medical staff and seems as taboo because IUD have to inserted to vagina. The use of IUD decline year by year, such as 6,2 % (IDHS 2002), 4.9 % (IDHS 2007), and descend to 3.9% (IDHS 2012). The attention towards this problem is needed, due to many changes to perefer using other contraception such as injections and pills that impact to reducing the number of IUD users. The purpose of this research is to find out the correlation of motivation and duration of using IUD in Labuhan Haji at primary health of Labuhan Haji Lombok Timur. Method: This research method was analytical observation. The sampling was done by total sampling technique with 77 respondents who were active acceptors in Labuhan Haji. In addition, the instrument used was a questionnaire with a Likert scale. Moreover, the data were analyzed using kendall tau (t). Results: Based on findings, the highest number of respondents (by age and education) who using IUDs is 41-50 years old, 34 respondents (44.2%) and the education level of most respondents is 39 respondents (50.6% high school). The most motivation for IUD users is Hight Motivation with 62 respondents (80.5%) and no respondents have low motivation. The longest duration of IUD for 2-10 years is 66 respondents (85.7%). Kendall tau analysis test results (t) value of ρ = 0, 170 > α = 0,05 means that Ho is accepted or Ho>a. Conclusion: There is no correlation between motivation and duration of using IUD in Labuhan Haji at health facility of Labuhan Haji Lombok Timur in 2013.

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