Abstract

Adolescents are considered as priority targets for reproductive health that will determine the quality of reproductive health in the future. The globalization of information has a big impact on adolescents. The great curiosity of adolescents about reproduction encourages adolescents to seek information from various sources, including peers, parents, schools and information media. This requires correct and responsible information so that adolescents can have healthy reproductive behavior. This study aims to analyze the factors that influence the behavior of peer counselors in the implementation of adolescent reproductive health counseling in Sumenep Regency. P enelitian uses quantitative methods to design cross-sectional. The population in this study is the total population, namely all peer counselors who have received training on Adolescent Reproductive Health in Sumenep Regency in 2020 as many as 66 people. Data analysis used chi-square statistical test and logistic regression. The results showed that the most dominant factor influencing was knowledge of KRR counseling, motivation towards the implementation of KRR counseling, support of officers for the implementation of KRR counseling, and the supervision of officers on the implementation of KRR counseling. This study recommends the Sumenep Regency BPMP & KB Office to organize and activate adolescent reproductive health counseling training and invite peer counselors who are active in Sumenep district, and facilitate any KRR counseling activities, namely in the form of facilities and infrastructure.

Highlights

  • Healthy teenagers are a very valuable national asset for the continuity of development in the future

  • According to WHO, the youth group, namely the population in the age range 10-19 years, in Indonesia has a proportion of approximately one-fifth of the total population

  • This study aims to analyze the factors that affected the role of peer counselors in the implementation of adolescent reproductive health counseling in

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Introduction

Healthy teenagers are a very valuable national asset for the continuity of development in the future. According to WHO, the youth group, namely the population in the age range 10-19 years, in Indonesia has a proportion of approximately one-fifth of the total population. This corresponds to the proportion of teenagers in the world where the number of juvenile estimated at 1 , 2 billion, or about one-fifth of the world population (Sataloff). Adolescence is closely related to psychological development in the period known as puberty which is accompanied by sexual development. This condition causes adolescents to be vulnerable to risky

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