2022-10-01
Putu Ayu Krisnawati, Ni Luh Putu Suariyani
People with disabilities are around 15% of the total world population. People with disabilities have various obstacles in accessing reproductive health services, including information, behavior, environment and economy. Women with disabilities are at high risk for reproductive health problems. Aim: The purpose of this research is to determine the level of knowledge, attitudes behavior and proportion about reproductive health of childbearing age women with physical disabilities in Denpasar City. This research was observational study with crosssectional design. This research was conducted on April - June 2020. The population in this study was women of childbearing age with physical disabilities who already had marriage. The sampling technique was purposive sampling with 66 women. This study used an online questionnaire to reduce direct contact because this research conducted during COVID-19 pandemic. This study analyzed by statistical package software.The result showed that majority of respondents with hearing impaired (36.36%), blind (31.82%), physical disability (28.79%), and speech impaired (3.03%). The level of reproductive health knowledge of respondents in this study who had good knowledge (39.39%), had positive attitudes (69.70%) and had bad behavior (68.18%). There is a significance relation between knowledge (p = 0.0003) and attitude (p = 0.002) towards reproductive health behavior. That can be conclude that most respondents have good knowledge and positive attitudes, but have poor reproductive health behaviors. To have good reproductive health behavior need to have good knowledge and positive attitude in reproductive health. Therefore, it is suggested regular socialization of reproductive health among women with disability using proper media that accessible for them