Implementasi Program Posyandu Remaja di Wilayah Kerja Puskesmas Bandar Khalipah Kecamatan Percut Sei Tuan Kabupaten Deli Serdang

Abstract

Adolescents posyandu is one of the innovations of community-based health services that aims to improve the health of adolescents through promotive and preventive approaches. This program includes various activities such as education on healthy living skills, reproductive health services, mental health counseling, nutrition screening, to prevention of violence and Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs). Bandar Khalipah Health Center has played a role in organizing adolescents posyandu for more than two years. The implementation of Adolescents posyandu in the working area of Bandar Khalipah Health Center has not been optimal, adolescents posyandu cadres have never received training so that not all of them are competent, and there is a lack of participation of adolescents in visiting Posyandu. This study aims to determine the implementation of the adolescents posyandu program in the working area of Bandar Khalipah Health Center, Percut Sei Tuan District, Deli Serdang Regency. This study is a qualitative descriptive study with 11 informants as research subjects. Data collection was carried out through in-depth interviews, observation and documentation. The results of the study indicate that the implementation of adolescent posyandu in the Bandar Khalipah Health Center work area has not met the standards, due to the lack of availability of facilities, limited implementation time, and lack of competence of posyandu cadres. From this study, it is expected that the Bandar Khalipah Health Center, Village Government, Deli Serdang Regency Health Office, will re-evaluate the implementation of adolescent posyandu in the Bandar Khalipah Health Center work area starting from the availability of facilities and the competence of posyandu cadres.