Abstract:
Background : Menarche is a change that indicates that adolescents have entered
the stage of maturity of the sexual organs in the body. Age to reach the phase of
the onset of menstruation for the first time is influenced by many factors,
including ethnicity, genetics, nutrition, social, economic, and others.
Objective : To find out the relationship between nutritional status and age of
menarche in adolescent girls at SMPN 13 Gresik
Method : This study used a correlational analysis design with aapproach cross
sectional.
Results: It is known that the results of research conducted at UPT SMPN 13
Gresik mostly experienced early menarche as many as 33 respondents (49.3%),
normal menarche age as many as 32 respondents (47%), age tarda menarche as
many as 2 respondents (3%). And most of them experienced mild fat nutritional
status as many as 30 respondents (44.8%), nutritional status with severe
underweight categories as many as 6 respondents (9.0%), nutritional status with
mild underweight categories as many as 8 respondents (11.9 %), nutritional status
with normal category as many as 23 respondents (34.3%), and 0 respondents with
severe nutritional status (0%).
Conclusion: There is a relationship between nutritional status and age at
menarche as evidenced by the analysis shown by the value of value (0.000) <
(0.05).
