Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Consuming more food sources of energy and macro nutrients above the recommendation, lower physical activity and mother role have consequences to early menarche among girl teenagers, then related to the risk of degenerative disease at the later age. The objective of the study is to analyse the factors that related with early menarche among junior high school girls. METHODS: This cross-sectional study was undertaken among girls in two junior high school in Padang, Indonesia by using questionnaires from May until June 2018. The data was analysed by Independent-t test. RESULTS: A total of 159 junior high school girls were participated in this study. Early menarche was identified in 23.3% girls. Of 22.6% girls was identified as overweight status. There was an association between food intake, physical activity and age at menarche of mother with age at menarche of girls. Early menarche was significantly higher consuming protein (p=0.001), consuming fat (p=0.0001), more frequent of fast food (p=0.0001), lower physical activity (p=0.030), early age at menarche of mother (p=0.0001) among junior high school girls. DISCUSSION: Food intake, including fast food intake and physical activity are the modifiable factors that have much attention according to age at menarche among girl teenagers.
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@proceedings{APCPH-2019-289,
title = {The Determinant of Early Menarche Among Junior High School Girls},
author = {Azrimaidaliza and S.KM and M.KM and Fitri Nia and S.Gz and Juliana Putri Dwiyana and S.Gz and Fitrah Illahi and S.Gz and Rauza Sukma Rita and Ph.D},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-07-22},
urldate = {2019-07-22},
journal = {6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Public Health 2019 Proceedings},
issue = {6},
abstract = {INTRODUCTION: Consuming more food sources of energy and macro nutrients above the recommendation, lower physical activity and mother role have consequences to early menarche among girl teenagers, then related to the risk of degenerative disease at the later age. The objective of the study is to analyse the factors that related with early menarche among junior high school girls. METHODS: This cross-sectional study was undertaken among girls in two junior high school in Padang, Indonesia by using questionnaires from May until June 2018. The data was analysed by Independent-t test. RESULTS: A total of 159 junior high school girls were participated in this study. Early menarche was identified in 23.3% girls. Of 22.6% girls was identified as overweight status. There was an association between food intake, physical activity and age at menarche of mother with age at menarche of girls. Early menarche was significantly higher consuming protein (p=0.001), consuming fat (p=0.0001), more frequent of fast food (p=0.0001), lower physical activity (p=0.030), early age at menarche of mother (p=0.0001) among junior high school girls. DISCUSSION: Food intake, including fast food intake and physical activity are the modifiable factors that have much attention according to age at menarche among girl teenagers.},
note = {Type: POSTER PRESENTATION; Organisation: Faculty of Public Health, University of Andalas, Padang, Indonesia},
keywords = {age at menarche of mother, food intake, junior high school girls, physical activity},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {proceedings}
}