Hubungan Pemakaian Kontrasepsi Suntik Depomedroxy Progesterone Acetate (DMPA) Dengan Peningkatan Berat Badan Pada Ibu

The Indonesian government has implemented family planning (FP) to reduce the rate of population growth. With the development of the family planning program launched by the government, contraception is also growing. Various choices of contraceptives are offered to the public. Injectable contraception is a drug to prevent pregnancy that is used by injecting the drug into fertile women. The use of injectable contraception for either one month or three months has a major side effect, namely weight gain. Factors that affect the bodyweight of injectable contraceptive acceptors are the presence of a strong progesterone hormone that stimulates the appetite hormone in the hypothalamus. To analyze the relationship between the use of depo medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) injectable contraceptives and maternal weight gain. The research design used observational analytics with a cross-sectional research design. The population is all maternal who use DMPA contraception at Langsa Baro Public Health Center. The sample of the study was 96 mothers using a random sampling technique. Data analysis technique using Pearson correlation test. The results showed that there was a relationship between the use of injections for 3 months with an increase in body weight with a value of P (sig) = 0.000 (