Jahitan Perineum, Dukungan Suami, dan Ansietas Seksual Ibu Post Partum

Abstract

Sexual is one of the human needs, biological and psychosocial. There are still many women who experience problems in the fulfillment of sexual needs. About 20% of women in the United States have a lubrication problem and 20% find sex unpleasant. In Indonesia, there are still many women who experience postpartum sexual anxiety. The factor is the perineal sutures and the quality of relationships, especially communication between husband and wife. This aims to determine the relationship perineal sutures and husband’s support with postpartum sexual anxiety. It’s correlation analytic research with cross sectional approach. The population is all post-partum women in Jurang village, Kudus with total sampling technique. They are 35 mother. The instruments using questionnaires and analysis using chi square test.The results of this study each of p value 0.00 and 0.029 (p <0.05). There was a significant association between perineal sutures and husband’s support with postpartum sexual anxiety. Nurses can provide health education, wound care and the strengthening of the husband in order to provide support in the form of attention, affection and comfort to the mother to be able to reduce the risk of postpartum sexual anxiety.