Pengaruh Pendidikan Kesehatan terhadap Perubahan Persepsi Remaja Putra Tentang Merokok Di SMA GIKI 2 Surabaya (Penelitian Quasy Eksperimental)

• Main Author: Indria Romadoni
• Format: Theses and Dissertations NonPeerReviewed
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: HQ793-799.2 Youth. Adolescents. Teenagers; RT1-120 Nursing
• Online Access: https://repository.unair.ac.id/123038/1/Indria%20Romadono_010510966B.pdf; https://repository.unair.ac.id/123038/; http://www.lib.unair.ac.id
• Institution: Universitas Airlangga

Smoking is unhealthy behavior which may lead to many health disorder. Not only smokers who will get the effect but also another people around and the environment. Male adolescent usually have a wrong perception about smoking. It is happened in eleventh grade male student of GIKI 2 Surabaya Senior High School. However, health education about smoking has not ever given in GIKI 2 Surabaya Senior High School. This study aimed to analyze the health education effect on the change of male adolescent’s perception about smoking who are in eleventh grade student of GIKI 2 Surabaya Senior High School. The design used in this study was Quasy-Experimental which compared control group and intervention group. The population was all of the male students in eleventh grade taken by purposive sampling method. As a result, thirty respondents fulfilled the inclusion criteria. The independent variable of this study was health education about smoking and the dependent variable was male adolescent’s perception about smoking. Data were collected using questionnaire and were then analyzed using Wilcoxon Sign Rank Test and Mann-Whitney Test (p< 0,05). The result showed that health education about smoking had significant influence in male adolescent’s perception of intervention group (p=0.009) and control group (p=1). The result also showed that there was a significant difference about post test score between intervention group and control group (p=0.031). It can be concluded that health education had a significant effect to change male adolescent’s perception of GIKI 2 Senior High School Surabaya’s students about smoking because health education could make better their perception. To obtain the greater effect of male adolescent perception changes, it is best that the frequently of health education is increased and also to get more effective result, it is better to use another method beside speech method.