The Effect of Health Education with Audiovisual on Increasing Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices on Maintaining Reproductive Health in Vocational School Adolescent Girls

Reproductive health is one of the most prominent issues in adolescence. Adolescents at this time experience adolescent physical and psychological changes. The cause of this problem is due to the lack knowledge of adolescents about reproductive health. To improve the knowledge of adolescents through reproductive health education. The media used is audiovisual because this media is interesting because it does not only display images or writing, but also with sound so that it is expected to increase knowledge, attitudes, and practices about reproductive health. This study aims to analyze the effect of audiovisual health education on improving adolescents’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices about reproductive health. This research method is a Pretest-Posttest Experiment with a control group. The study population was female adolescents at SMK Era Pembangunan 3, with a sample of 30 people. Sampling was done by random sampling. Data analysis using SPSS with Chi-Square test. Statistically obtained the results of the p-value = 0.000 <0.05. So that there is a significant effect of health education with audiovisual on increasing knowledge, attitudes, and practices about maintaining reproductive health in adolescents.