PERBANDINGAN EFEKTIFITAS PENDIDIKAN KESEHATAN MENGGUNAKAN MEDIA KOMIK DAN AUDIOVISUAL PADA PENGETAHUAN REMAJA TENTANG HIV

Background: HIV/AIDS is a health problem that threatens many countries around the world. Knowledge is basically the result of the process of seeing, hearing, feeling. Knowledge of HIV / AIDS is knowledge of understanding, incubation period, transmission and prevention. This study aims to compare the effectiveness of health education using comic and audiovisual media on adolescents' knowledge of HIV. Method: The design of this research is pretest-posttest without control group design. The sample of this study was 48 students at SMP Islam Ma'arif 03 Malang which was divided into 2 groups, namely comic group N=23 students and audiovisual group N=25 students. This study used Purposive sampling technique with Wilcoxon Test data analysis. Result: statistic test results in comic and audiovisual groups obtained significance values of less than 0.05 (sig < 0.05) so it can be stated that there is a significant difference between pre test and post test knowledge and post test knowledge in comic groups and audiovisual groups. Conclusion: after being given intervention in comic groups and audiovisual groups there is good knowledge. so that there is the influence of health education using comic and audiovisual media on adolescents' knowledge of HIV