Hubungan Tinggi Badan Dengan Ukuran Lebar Panggul Pada Mahasiswi Angkatan 2010 Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas Sam Ratulangi

Abstract

: Body weight is one of growth indicators. The result of previous research show that women with less than 145 centimeter body weight are potentially has a pelvic stricture. Pelvic stricture is able to cause a coccygeal presentation that can cause natal death. The purpose is to know the correlation of body height and pelvic width which are distansia spinarum and distansia tuberum. The method of this research is observational – analytic using cross – sectional design. The study was conducted for three weeks. The amount of the subject is 80 subjects. The measure of body height and pelvic width of the subjects was being analyzed by the Pearson Correlation Analysis with α = 0,05. The result show that there was a significant correlation of body height and measure of distansia spinarum with correlation coefficient +0,479. In the other side, there was nothing significant correlation of body height and measure of distansia tuberum with correlation coefficient +0,088. Conclusion: There have significant correlation of body height and measure of distansia spinarum but there have no significant correlation of body height and measure of distansia tuberum