Health Education in Principle of Community Affected Teenagaer’s Smooking Attitude and Habitual in the Coastal Area of Madura Island Indonesia

1Emdat Suprayitno, Jerry Dwi Trijoyo Purnomo, Sutikno Sutikno, Ratna Indriyani

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Abstract:

One of negative changes happened to teenagers is smoking habit. Whereas chemical contents in each cigarette are able to harm every person who smoke it, even the surrounding. Due to the bad effect, it is very urgent to avoid by preventive and promotive action. While the aim of the study is to analyze the impact between health education systems based on community to attitude and smoking habit on the teenagers. This is a quantitative research by design of quasi experimental. The population in the study is 56 teenager smokers that collected by using simple random sampling. Here the samples are divided into 2 groups, contains about 28 persons. Treatment given to them is intervention on community base of health education, while 28 in another group are only given a leaflet describing the dangers of smoking. As the study result, it is known that using an independent attitude test on group of treatment and group of control before the process are p = 0.182, and smoking habit score on them before process are p = 0.664. The average difference on member of group treatment and control attitude score noted after intervention is p = 0.000. And the average difference score on smoking habit of group treatment and control after intervention is 0.000. These notes show that attitude and smoking habit before and after treatment is different. The difference in delta score on group of treatment and control after intervention is p = 0.000. While the difference in delta score on smoking habit after intervention is also p = 0.000. This study shows that the respondents in group intervention owing better attitude and behavior than group control. And the meaning is community bases on health education can be used as an alternative way to prevent and promote the step to handle young teen smokers.

Keywords:

Health Education, Teenagers, Smoking habit

Paper Details
Month5
Year2020
Volume24
IssueIssue 10
Pages1492-1502