Knowledge Improvement of Preventing Sexually Transmitted Disease to Students of SMP Negeri 1 Talawaan Kecamatan Dimembe, North Minahasa

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10.2991/ahsr.k.200215.047How to use a DOI?

Keywords

sexually transmitted diseases, students, SMP

Abstract

Lack of information and knowledge from the youth students about sexually transmitted disease (STD) can lead to increment to the numbers of the sexually transmitted disease among the youth. SMP Negeri I Talawaan is one of the schools located in North Minahasa. Presenting the education or information related to sexual issues si still considered toboo and trigger pros-cons among the society in the village of Talawaan, Kecamatan dimembe. Thus, the information about the education and the risk of sexually transmitted disease is necessary to improve he knowledge of the students about STD so that the students can prevent STD in early stage. This is a quasi-experiment with One Group Pretest Posstest approach that have been held in August 2019. The sample used was a total of 78 students at SMP Negeri I Talawaan 7th grade and 8th grade. Data collecting on this research by using questionnaire. Knowledge level about the STD before the socialization which categorized as good knowledge category is 21 respondents amounted to (26.92%), fair knowledge category is 49 respondents (62.82%), and less knowledge category is 8 respondents (10.25%). Whereas upon receiving the socialization, the knowledge level improved where number of respondent in good knowledge category is 69 respondents (88.46%), fair knowledge category is 9 respondents (11.53%), in other words respondent with less knowledge category is none.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Chreisye K. F. Mandagi
AU  - Sekplin A. S. Sekeon
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/02/22
TI  - Knowledge Improvement of Preventing Sexually Transmitted Disease to Students of SMP Negeri 1 Talawaan Kecamatan Dimembe, North Minahasa
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Health Research (ISHR 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 247
EP  - 249
SN  - 2468-5739
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ahsr.k.200215.047
DO  - 10.2991/ahsr.k.200215.047
ID  - Mandagi2020
ER  -