Abstract
Smoking is a bad behavior which can cause danger to health. Today, it becomes a habit for adolescents. It can be prevented by promoting health education by using audiovisual media, which provides information and education for increasing good knowledge and attitude toward the prevention of smoking. The research problem was how about the influence of audiovisual media on adolescents' knowledge and attitude. The objective of the research was to analyze the impact of audiovisual media on adolescents' knowledge and attitude toward the danger of smoking at SMP Negeri 2 Halongonan Timur Subdistrict. The study used a quasi-experimental method with pretest-posttest design. It was conducted at SMP Negeri 2 Halongonan Timur Subdistrict, Padang Lawas Utara Regency. Eighty-four samples were selected and allocated to the intervention group and the control group. The data were gathered using questionnaires. The hypothesis was tested by using paired t-test ad independent t-test. The result of the research showed that there was a significant influence of audiovisual media (p<0.05) on adolescents' knowledge and attitude after they had been given intervention. The conclusion was that audiovisual media was more effective in increasing adolescents' knowledge and attitude toward the danger of smoking. It is recommended that parents not smoke in front of their children. The school management needs to collaborate with the parents for discussing the academic development and students' behavior, and health care providers should increase health education program about the danger of smoking.
 Keywords: audiovisual media, knowledge, attitude, the danger of smoking
Highlights
Smoking is one of the habits which is found in everyday life
The results of the study show that heavy smokers have started this habit since their teens, and almost no heavy smokers are just starting to smoke in International Journal of Nursing and Health Services (IJNHS), Volume 2, Issue 3, September 2019 164 adulthood
The study aimed to examine the effect of audiovisual media intervention on improving the knowledge and attitude among adolescents at SMP negeri 2 Halongonan timur
Summary
Smoking is one of the habits which is found in everyday life. Lifestyle is interesting as a health problem. The results of the study show that heavy smokers have started this habit since their teens, and almost no heavy smokers are just starting to smoke in International Journal of Nursing and Health Services (IJNHS), Volume 2, Issue 3, September 2019 164 adulthood. Based on Basic Health Research (Riskesdas 2013), the number of smokers in the province of North Sumatra reached 29.7%, for the national prevalence of male smokers by 54.1% while current smokers in North Sumatra according to Riskesdas 35.7%. The average number of cigarettes smoked per day by more than half (52.3%) of smokers is 1-10 cigarettes. 49% of male students have consumed cigarettes
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