Background The adolescent’ demands are uneasy to be fulfilled and understood. These, especially for reproductive health, lead to adolescent public issue emerging. Issues regarding adolescent reproductive health’s important, particularly who live in a prostitution area. Education, specifically is counseling, becomes a solution decreasing issues concern to lack of reproductive health knowledge in adolescent.
Aim To understand the effect of counseling to knowledge level of reproductive health on High School students in the district of Bandungan.
Method This research was conducted using quasi experimental pre-test and post-test nonequivalent control group design. Eighty samples of second grade students were taken by cluster sampling, divided into two groups. Forty samples were grouped as a control and the other experimental group. Every subjects in each group was given pretest questionnaire. The experimental group was followed by reproductive health counseling and other had no intervention. Posttest questionnaire was given one week after pretest. Data were analyzed using paired t test and its alternative Wilcoxon test for each group and independent t test and its alternative Mann-Whitney test comparing both groups.
Result There was no significant difference on knowledge level of reproductive health in control group (p=0,103). On the other hand, there was a significant difference before and after counseling in the experimental group (p=0,000). Significant difference was also found in knowledge level analyzing between control and experimental group (p=0,000).
Conclusion Counseling increases knowledge level of reproductive health on High School students in the district of Bandungan.
Keywords counseling, knowledge level, reproductive health, adolescents, prostitutio
