Pengaruh Pendidikan Kesehatan Reproduksi Remaja terhadap Pengetahuan dan Sikap Remaja tentang Perilaku Seks di SMA Ir. H. Juanda Tebing Tinggi Tahun 2015

Abstract

Sexual behavior is any form of behaviour motivated by sexsual desire, both with the opposite sex and with the same sex, without any legal marriage according to religion and marriage law. The promotion of reproduction health in teenagers is always connotated as sex education in which most Indonesian Society still consider it is a taboo thing. Teenagers' problems among others was unwanted pregnancy (33.79%), abortion (21%), while Sexual Injection Disease (SID) among teenagers (4, 11%) and HIV1AIDS (50%) happened at the age of 15-29 years (The Survey of UI Reseach Center, 2012). Based on preliminary survey by interviewing 10 schoolgirls of Senior High School Ir. H. Juanda Tebing, it was found 6 schoolgirls (60%) didn't know about sexual behavior and only 4 schoolgirls (40%) knew about it. The objective of this research wa5 lo understand the influence of reproductive health education among teenagers on their knowledge and attitude about sexual behavior. The type of research used was true experimental research using pretest posttest control group design The samples were 80 schoolgirls consisted of 40 schoolgirls in experimental group and 40 schoolgirls in control group. The result of the research showed that giving reproductive health education to teenagers can increased teenagers' knowledge and attitude about sexual behaviour. There is influence of reproductive health education in teenagers towards knowledge (p< 0,001) and attitude (p< 0,001) about sexual behaviour. Teachers as the person trusted by students should broaden their knowledge and explore information as well as update the development of adolescent reproductive health problems, so that they can help to solve the problem of adolescent reproductive health.