Pengembangan Model Pendidikan Kesehatan Remaja Dalam Pendewasaan Usia Perkawinan

Abstract

This research aims to develop a model instrument for adolescent health education in maturing the age of marriage. At adolescence, the female reproductive organs are psychologically well developed and strong and ready to give birth to offspring and physically begin to mature. For that, it needs a method of health education that can reach teenagers. This research used a development method that also includes the instrument standardization process. The model used is a 4-D model development consisting of define, design, develop, and disseminate. The subjects of this study consisted of adolescents aged 10-15 years and 16-21 years in Tangerang City. The sample was selected in this study through cluster random sampling technique. This study indicates that reproductive health education can increase the knowledge of adolescents in Tangerang City about maturing the age of marriage. Health education activities through reproductive education have shown quite effective results in increasing adolescent knowledge about maturing age at marriage. At the pretest, adolescents' knowledge was included in the poor category because the teenagers had not received direct information about maturing age at marriage. However, indirectly some teenagers get information from the mass media without further knowledge, namely at the knowing stage. However, during the posttest, there was a significant increase in respondents' knowledge about reproductive health education. Of the 13 indicators, all experienced an increase in the average value of knowledge compared to the reproductive health education pretest.