DESCRIPTION OF DECREASED OF LIBIDO IN DEPO PROVEA ACCEPTOR

Abstract

The family planning program aims to regulate birth, maturation of marriage age and family welfare. One of the modern family planning is the depo provera injection. One of the effects of using depo provera injections is to experience a decrease in libido. This study aims to determine the factors that influence decreased libido in depo provera family planning acceptors in the Work Area of the Hiang Public Health Center. The design of this study was descriptive using a cross-sectional approach to 43 respondents who received the depo provera injection. Sampling in this study using accidental sampling technique. The sata collection method in this study used the FSFI scale and interviews. The result showed that, it was obtained that 55.8% of the respondents were long-term depo provera family planning acceptors. The average score on the FSFI scale was 60.74, which means that the respondent did not experience a decrease in libido. Based on the average score for each domain, only the low sexual desire domain was 5.93, pain 9.72, sexual satisfaction 9.88, orgasm 10.07, sexual arousal 11.98, and lubrication 13.16. it can be concluded that all acceptors did not experience a decrease in libido, but from all domains only the sexual desire factor had a low average score. Decreased libido in depo provera injectable KB acceptors does not only occur in problems of sexual desire, sexual arousal, orgasm, lubrication, sexual satisfaction and pain, but many other factors can cause acceptors to experience decreased libido or other sexual problems. It is hoped that future researchers will be able to examine other factors that influence the sexual function of depo provera injectable birth control acceptors.