DEVELOPMENT OF THE PEER GROUP TRAINING METHOD WITH THE PROBLEM CARD MEDIA TO INCREASING YOUTH KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE ABOUT PREMARITAL SEX IN BOGOR CITY

Abstract

Background : Teenagers as the next generation face various problems. The most prominent problem is the problem of TRIAD KRR (Sexuality, HIV, AIDS and Drug). From 63.6 million teenagers in Indonesia, one percent of teenage girls and six percent of young men had had premarital sex. Some studies show that 20 years ago, teenagers who agreed to have premarital sex were around 1.2% - 9.6%, then 10 years later rose to above 10% and 5 years later that figure rose to 17% (BKKBN, 2010) The Planning Generation Program (GenRe) for teenagers  through the Center for Youth Information and Counseling (PIK-Remaja).  The lecture and brainstorming method, although able to increase knowledge, but has disadvantages, participants do not actively participate in activities, thus require other methods of innovation.

Methods : This research was conducted in two stages; the first is to determine factors related to premarital sex, carried out by using exploratory mix method design. In the second phase of research conducted training on peer groups by using media problem cards in improving knowledge and attitudes about premarital sex, using research design Quasi experimental design of one group pretest-posttest design with control. The research population was teenagers in Bogor, conducted on YZA Vocational School students as an intervention group and Pesat Vocational School as a control group. Minimum sample size was obtained for 24 samples for each group. The sampling technique was taken by cluster sampling. To find out the differences in the average knowledge and attitudes of teenagers about premarital sex before and after the intervention, a statistical analysis was performed using the Wilcoxon test.

Results : The results showed that knowledge and attitudes increased after training, but did not significance.  By using media to increase knowledge and attitudes, using the Mann Whitney test The Mann Witney test, results showed that knowledge and attitudes were significantly different between the intervention group and the control group.