DESIGN OF INFORMATION MEDIA OF SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES AND MENSTRUAL DISORDERS ON THE ADOLESCENT WOMEN BEHAVIOR
Abstract
There are several problems related to reproductive health in adolescents, including sexually transmitted diseases and menstrual disorders. Providing accurate information is an effort to prevent this problem. This study aimed to design an application as a media of information to prevent problems related to reproductive health, mainly sexually transmitted diseases and menstrual disorders, which could affect the knowledge and attitudes of young women. Besides, affecting young women's acceptance of the application media used. The research method used a combined method, Research and Development methods with quasi-experiments by conducting an assessment of the pre-test and post-test between the intervention group (iKnow application) and the control group (printout). Pre-test and post-test assessments on the knowledge and attitudes of young women by a questionnaire and application acceptance assessment using the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). The pre-test and post-test data analysis in each group used the Wilcoxon test, and the Mann-Whitney test was used to analyze the changes between the intervention and control groups. The validation results by media experts were 88%, and material experts were 77%, so the application was decided feasible to use. Analysis of changes between the intervention and control groups obtained a significant value of 0.006 on knowledge and 0.010 on attitude (p≤0.05). Furthermore, the acceptance of young women to the application was very good, with a mean ≥ median value.