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THE CORRELATION EDUCATION ABOUT HEALTH REPRODUCTIVE AND KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE OF HEALTH REPRODUCTIVE OF THE ADOLESCENT

Abstract

Adolescent pregnancy remains a major contributor to maternal and child mortality and to the cycle of ill-health and poverty. Adolescent pregnancies are more likely in poor, uneducated and rural communities. The aim of this study was to analyze correlation education about health reproductive and knowledge and attitude of health reproductive of the adolescent. This study was a quasy experiments with pretest-posttest control group design.The population is the student of high school in Yogyakarta regency. The sample of this study uses purposive sampling with 25 respondents in experiment group and 27 respondents in control group. The data was analyzed by Wilcoxon and Mann Whitney. Collecting data through a questionnaire. The result in this study showed that in controle group, the value of knowledge was p = 0,075 (p>0,05), while value of attitude was p = 0,080 (p>0,05). In experiment group the value of knowledge was p = 0,001 (p0,05). The result showed that in experiment group of knowledge there was a significant difference, but the experiment group of attitude was no significant defferent, while in control group there wasn’t a significant difference. The conclusion of this study is there is correlation between health reproductive education toward knowledge, but there is no correlation attitude of health reproductive on adolescent. Keywords: Education of health reproductive, knowledge, attitude, adolescent

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