The Knowledge of HIV Prevention and Sexual Reproductive Health among Papua Adolescent in a Health Promotion Counselling Using Friendly Module and Games

摘要

To engage the adolescents in Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) promotion counselling there is the need to innovate using new media that is more appropriate to their needs and acceptable to their daily life. A crossed-sectional questionnaire survey was conducted among 66 randomly selected high school students aged 15-17year old, attending health promotion counselling in 3 schools in Jayapura, Papua province, Indonesia. The study aimed to assess the level of knowledge which Papua adolescents have about HIV prevention and general SRH before and after the intervention using new media of adolescent friendly module and games in a health promotion counselling. The result shown the increase of the mean knowledge score before and after the counselling program at the first school from 11.12 to 14.00, second school from 10.90 to 16.52 and the third school from 9.90 to 15.85. Overall, there was an increase of the mean knowledge of HIV prevention and general SRH before and after the health promotion counselling using new media 10.68 and 15.36, respectively. The survey demonstrated a great increase in the level of knowledge of HIV prevention and general SRH among adolescents in Papua after the health promotion counselling using new media of adolescent friendly module and games. Furthermore, there was a greater need to expand the research of using the adolescent friendly media for HIV prevention and SRH in health promotion counselling in other areas in Papua with a bigger and variety characteristics of sample.