PELATIHAN KOMUNIKASI INTERPERSONAL PADA PETUGAS OUTREACH PROGRAM HARM REDUCTION PADA PENGGUNA NARKOBA SUNTIK

HIV and AIDS are increasing in Indonesia. Especially injected narcotic users (addict). Thus, Harm Reduction (HR) program is needed. To connect addict with HR, a connector (outreach) with promising skill of getting in direct contact with addict is needed. This research sees trough the efficiency of interpersonal communication training to increase communicating skill with the addict. The participants are outreaches that are currently assigned work in DIY, which are in Sleman, Bantul, and Yogyakarta. Experienced in outreaching and have various educational backgrounds, had history as addict and is not currently a addict. The research plan is the one group pretest posttest design with follow up. An increase on interpersonal communicating skill was shown Based on Wilcoxon test, but not significant. After one month training, only three participants show increase in the interpersonal communicating skill. Based on Mann Whitney calculation, there was no significance difference on interpersonal communicating skill on the two outreach groups until one month training. Acting-positive aspect keeps increasing significantly up until the end of the training program. Interpersonal communicating skill could be applied by modifying the other communicating skills. This skill will be even more advantageous if used by new outreach that is just at the start of his/ her work