DESCRIPTION ON THE PATIENTS’ CHARACTERISTICS OF ABNORMAL UTERINEBLEEDING BASED ON STRUCTURAL AND NON-STRUCTURAL ETIOLOGY

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The Southeast Asian Journal of Midwifery Vol.7, No.1, April 2021, p: 50-55 E-ISSN: 2476-972X P-ISSN: 2476-9738 Journal-aipkind.or.id 50 DESCRIPTION ON THE PATIENTS’ CHARACTERISTICS OF ABNORMAL UTERINEBLEEDING BASED ON STRUCTURAL AND NON-STRUCTURAL ETIOLOGY Silvia Maya Ananta1*, Jimmy Yanuar Annas2, Lilik Herawati3 1Midwifery Program, Faculty of Medicine, Airlangga University, Surabaya, 60131, Indonesia 2 Obstetric and Gynecology Department, , Dr. Soetomo District General Hospital, Surabaya, 60285, Indonesia 3 Physiology Departement, Faculty of Medicine, Airlangga University, Surabaya, 60131, Indonesia INFORMASI ARTIKEL: A B S T R A C T Riwayat Artikel: Tanggal diterima: Maret 2021 Tanggal di revisi: Maret 2021 Tanggal di Publikasi: April 2021 Key Word : Abnormal Uterine Bleeding,Symptom, PALM, COEIN 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