PENGARUH PEER SEXUALITY EDUCATION TERHADAP PERILAKU SEKSUAL REMAJA

Introduction: adolescence experience a quick change of sexuality and reproduction, and also they arevery curious that can make a risk for maladaptive sexual behavior. Appropriate the phsychological change, adolescent more opened with their peer than their parent or the others.This study was aimed to analyze the effect of peer sexuality education for adolescent’s behavior. Method:this study was used quasy experimental design. Population were all of adolescence in the work area of Puskesmas Pacarkeling and Puskesmas Kedungdoro through consecutive sampling, 40 respondent involved, divided into 20 respondents on treatment group and 20 respondents on control group. The independent variable was peer sexuality education and dependent variable was sexual behavior. Datas were collected by questionnaire and analyzed with Paired T-test and Independent T-test with significancy level α=0,05. Results: PairedT-test showed that peer sexuality education didn’t had effect on adolescent’s knowledge(p=0,115) but had effect on attitude (p=0,019) and behavior (p=0,004). Independent T-test showed there was no different result between treatment group and control group on knowledge (p=0,775) but had different result on attitude (p=0,009) and behavior (p=0,001).Discussion:it can be concluded that peer sexuality education can be used as a method of health education to control sexual behavior. Further study should do this intervention with longer frequencies so it can be more usefull to increase their knowledge, also make a more positive attitude and adaptive sexual behavior