THE EFFECTIVENESS BETWEEN PEER EDUCATORS AND GUIDANCE COUNSELLING TEACHERS TO REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH LEVEL KNOWLEDGE AMONG SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS STUDENTS Niken Meilani and Nanik Setiyawati
Poltekkes Kemenkes Yogyakarta
Abstract
Adolescents is the most vulnerable period to reproductive health problems. These problems include early pregnancy, unsafe abortion, sexuallyinfections transmitted (STIs) including the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), sexual abuse. Access for sex education and reproductive health services to comprehensive and youth-friendly is still very limited. There had been several studies about effective methods for increasing adolescents knowledge about reproductive health. Peer educator is a strategy of providing information that is quite effective for adolescents in increasing adolescent knowledge about adolescent reproductive health. This study aims to determine the effectiveness of peer educators and guidance and counselling teachers in adolescent reproductive health level of knowledge. The method in this study is a quantitative study with a quasi-experimental nonequivalent control group design with treatment groups using peer educators and teacher as control groups to improving reproductive health knowledge among girls students. Samples used was 70 respondents. Data collected by questionnaire that already had validity and reliability test. Data analysis used univariate, t-test and logistic regression. The results of this study showed that the provision of information was more effective through teachers with p = 0,000 with exp B = 14.5. Need to optimizing the role of guidance and counseling teachers in providing information on adolescent reproductive health
Keywords: guidance counseling, teacher, peer, level of knowledge, adolescents
