THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ”BUGAR” PACKAGE TOWARD SEXUAL ACTIVITY COMFORTABLE LEVEL AMONG MENOPAUSE WOMEN IN COMMUNITY

Abstract

Menopause could cause anxiety resulted by drastic changes in sex function and sex activity comfort. The purposes of the study was to explore the effectiveness of  “Bugar” package to improve sexual activity comfortable level of menopause women at Perumnas I Bekasi. This study was a descriptive Quasi Experimental Pretest-Posttest with control group design. The population in this research was menopause women at Perumnas I Bekasi. The samples were 84 women, 42 women were in intervention group and 42 women were in control group. Purposive SamplingMethods and Simple Random Sampling were used to collect samples for indepth interview. Chi-square test was used to meased effectiveness of “Bugar” package to sexual activity comfortabel level. The result of studyrevealed that the respondent homogenity test between intervention group and control group were homogen (p > 0.05). The results of study indicated that there were meaning differences on grade of sexual activity comfortable level between intervention group and control group (p = 0.003). The intervention group had sexual activity in comfortable level. This case showed that “Bugar” package is effective to increase sexual activity comfortable level of menopause women at Perumnas I Bekasi. This study recommended that health education with “Bugar” package can be applied for sexual activity of menopause women.