Pengaruh Pendidikan Kesehatan tentang Penyakit Menular Seksual terhadap Perubahan Pengetahuan dan Sikap Siswa SMAN 8 Surakarta

Abstract

Phenomenon of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) in Indonesia is increasing in 2008, where 809 teenagers are infected with STDs and the majority are women with a tendency increasing each year, school health education is an important issue that needs to get the attention of all parties, the school is a strategic step in improving health community because the school is an institution that is deliberately set up to foster and enhance human resources whether physical, mental, moral and intellectual. This study aimed to investigate the influence of health education with knowledge and attitudes changing about sexually transmitted diseases at SMAN 8 Surakarta. This research uses Quasi-Experiment with the type of research designs are pretest and posttest control group design. The population in this research all second grade students at SMAN 8 Surakarta as many as 323 students, with a sample of 76 students consisted of 38 experimental group and control 38 people of group. Sampling uses cluster random sampling method. Statistical analysis using the T test with belief values α = 0.05. The results of t - test against the results of a survey by using a questionnaire showed the difference in knowledge and attitudes of high school students to the problem of SMAN 8 Surakarta to the STDs problemm where knowledge in the control group get a slight increase in the achievement of the mean value of 10.94 at pretest increased to 11.13 at post test. While the experimental group also increased their knowledge with post test achievement of the mean value of 10.52 at pretest and 12.05. And on attitudes to the value of the control group experienced a slight increase in average-value 39.44 during the pre test to 39.88 at post test. While the experimental group also experienced an increase in average-value 42.41 during the pre test and 44.21 at postest. The results of independent T-test with a significance value of 0.000 and 0.044 thus showing that there are different levels of students' knowledge and attitudes about sexually transmitted diseases between before and after giving of health education intervention between experimental groups and control groups of SMAN 8 Surakarta students.