Meningkatkan Pengetahuan Remaja dengan Penyuluhan dan Bimbingan Tentang Cara Menjaga Kesehatan Organ Reproduksi pada Siswa SMP Swasta Di Kecamatan Mengwi

Abstract

Teenagers have limited access to information about sexuality and reproductive health because people generally consider it taboo and are not suitable for open discussion. Introducing how to care for the reproductive organs is one of the life skills education materials. But not all students get sex education, especially about maintaining cleanliness/health of reproductive organs. The purpose of this community service activity is to find out the increase in junior high school students' knowledge about how to maintain the health of reproductive organs after receiving counseling/guidance. The target in this activity is 168 private junior high school students in the Mengwi sub-district as many as 168 people. This community service method is "Pretest - Counseling - Posttest". Health counseling material and group guidance on maintaining the health of reproductive organs. Counseling uses the method of lecture, discussion and question, and answer, with media leaflets. The results of dedication show, descriptive data of junior high school students' knowledge before being given counseling is a minimum value of 13, a maximum value of 93, an average of 68.61 and a median of 70, whereas after counseling, a minimum value of 70, a maximum value of 100, an average of 79.54 median 80. There is a significant difference in the knowledge of private junior high school students in the Mengwi District before and after being given counseling and group guidance.

Keywords: Girls, education, reproductive health