Health Education on Prevention of Domestic Violence Behavior in Newly Married Couples in Sukosari Village Bondowoso

Abstract

Domestic violence has a prevalence of millions of victims throughout the world which results in violations of human rights, has serious impacts on physical and mental health, and causes damage to relationships within the household. Therefore, it is important to provide health information and education services to the community to prevent domestic violence. This activity aims to provide health education service facilities regarding the prevention of domestic violence behavior in newly married couples. Health education activities were carried out for 60 minutes with 10 newly married couples as participants. The results of the activity showed that the participants' knowledge before the activity was in the good knowledge category at 50% and after the health education activity, the knowledge increased to the very good knowledge category at 50%. The health sector has the unique potential to address domestic violence, particularly through health services that can be accessed by the majority of the general public, one of which is through health education activities