International Congress on Scientific Research Turki CHARACTERISTICS OF POSTPARTUM MOTHERS WITH PERINEAL WOUNDS IN THE BATU ANAM HEALTH CENTER SIMALUNGUN REGENCY

An indicator of women's health status and a component of the development index and quality of life index is the Maternal Mortality Rate. Bleeding that occurs during postpartum is an important issue because it is related to the mother's health and can cause death. Anemia and perineal tears are one of the causes of postpartum bleeding (Yurniati, 2019). In Indonesia, perineal wounds were experience by 75% of mothers giving birth vaginally. In 2013, perineal wounds found that of a total of 1951 spontaneous vaginal births, 57% of mothers received perineal sutures (Ministry of Health of the Republic of Indonesia, 2018)). This study aims to describe the characteristics of postpartum mothers with perineal wounds in the Batu Anam Health Center area, Simalungun Regency. The design of this research was descriptive with a cross-sectional design. The analysis uses univariate analysis to describe the characteristics of postpartum mothers who experience perineal wounds. The population is postpartum mothers who experienced a perineal tear who gave birth in the working area of Batu Anam Health Center from May 2023 to September 2023. The sample for this study was the whole population of 30 postpartum mothers. The results of the study showed that the majority of postpartum mothers who experienced a tear were aged 20-35 years (90%), the majority of postpartum mothers who experienced a tear had higher education (70%), the majority of postpartum mothers who experienced a tear were primigravida (56.7%), and the majority of postpartum mothers who experienced tearing worked as housewives (73.3%). The conclusion of the research above showed that most of the respondents who experienced perineal wounds were postpartum mothers aged 20-35 years (90%).