Open AccessDESCRIPTION ON THE PATIENTS’ CHARACTERISTICS OF ABNORMAL UTERINEBLEEDING BASED ON STRUCTURAL AND NON-STRUCTURAL ETIOLOGY
Author(s) -
Silvia Maya Ananta,
Jimmy Yanuar Annas,
Lilik Herawati
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
seajom: the southeast asian journal of midwifery/seajom: the southeast asia journal of midwifery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2476-9738
pISSN - 2476-972X
DOI - 10.36749/seajom.v7i1.105
Subject(s) - etiology , medicine , medical record , body mass index , disease , pediatrics , gynecology , pathology , surgery
Abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB) is a problem frequently experienced by women in the world. AUB is not a disease but a symptom that indicates a problem in the female reproductive system or organs. The purpose of research was to determine the description of the patients’ caracteristics of AUB with structural (PALM) and non-structural (COEIN) etiologies. This analytical description study used medical record data from AUB patient in Dr. Soetomo District General Hospital Surabaya in January-December 2019. The number of samples of this study was 65 data, with 36 data for structural etiologies (PALM) and 29 data for non-structural etiologies (COEIN). Caracteristic of patient were seen from 3 categories, i.e., age, parity status, and body mass index (BMI) from 2 etiological categorie